shortest stay at Privet Drive

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 125909



> GEO: Except the wizards that Harry encountered were all seemingly 
> Order members or ministry aurors including Diggle, Shacklebolt and 
> Vance so they were of no threat and possibly observers and people 
> sent by DD to check up on him.

Finwitch:

Yes, but - I'm just saying that even if the protection has not been
broken (apart from the Dementor-attack), it could be. We saw Voldemort
telling Pettigrew that even he cannot harm Harry while he's under his
relations' care... so he's not even *trying*.

Now-- 'as long as you can still call home a place where your mother's
blood dwells there you will be safe from Voldemort' - hasn't Harry
always considered Hogwarts more his *home* than Privet Drive?

What if Petunia is killed in a car-accident, by DE or Voldemort... And
why didn't Dumbledore count Dudley as Lily's blood? He SHOULD also
have it via his mother...

I have serious doubts about this blood-protection...

Was it the blood-protection or Harry's own internal magic or Lily's
love-mark that kept Vernon from strangling Harry to dead?

Or starvation? or poison? or a magical, lethal disease?

Plenty of ways for Harry to die within Dursley household without
Voldemort getting involved. (Of course, the prophecy means Voldemort
must *be* there, but maybe he'll just pretend to be Grunnings'
potential customer, bribe Vernon or - well, as long as he doesn't try
to off Harry personally, the protection might not WORK...)

Finwitch