shortest stay at Privet Drive

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 125523


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at a...> 
wrote:
> Anyway, we already know Fudge is going to be replaced as 
Minister.  
> We've already had the Dumbledore vs. Ministry plot, so the next 
> Minister will most likely be on his side. 

GEO: How do we know that? Right now some theories are suggesting 
Lucius Malfoy might worm his way out of Azkaban with a clean record 
and become the next MoM through the manipulation of the people that 
appoint the said MoM after the sacking of Fudge?

 If s/he IS working with 
> Dumbledore, surely Harry, the only one who has defied Voldemort 
FOUR 
> times, would be someone useful to have around.  Or they'd at least 
> want to be nice to the kid for a change.

GEO: The ministry is the pinnacle of narrow sighted government and 
overloaded and useless bureaucracy. If they recognized him they 
would only see him as a cat's paw against DD and Voldemort and 
dispose of him after the destruction of the latter and the 
discrediting of the former.

> (It seems stupid to me for Harry to have to stay there anyway, 
since 
> he's only protected INSIDE the house, what good is that???  We 
> already saw what happens when people are trapped inside their 
> houses...  It would be safer if he stayed at Hogwarts year round!)

GEO: We've seen Hogwarts getting compromised more than Privet Drive 
including Peter Pettigrew as Scabbers, Quirrelmort, Voldemort's 
Diary/Lucius Malfoy, Sirius Black and Barty Crouch Jr. However in 
comparison, Privet Drive has been compromised a total of once.