Hogwarts Teachers - Lockhart (was History at Hogwarts) (was Re: Wizard Persecution )

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No: HPFGUIDX 126256


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> Well, the Ministry certainly knows where Harry is, and Lucius has a
> lot of "good friends" there. A few galleons here and there would
> bring in some quite useful information.

GEO: They apparently know where he is in book 2, but we really have 
no evidence if they knew where he was between the fall of 1981 and 
the summer of 1990. The only wizards he meets during that time are 
all people associated with Dumbledore or old Order members.
 
> Now, if the Blood Protection would have protected Harry while he 
was 
> at primary school, then JKR still has some major 'splainin' to 
do.  
> Just how far does this protection go?  And why were the Dementors 
> able to attack Harry in OOTP?

GEO: Good questions perhaps these will be addressed in latter 
volumes.
 
> I disagree strongly and vehemently. At the very least DD should
> have sent Petunia a Howler saying "let Harry out of the closet or
> spend the next week as a mushroom." Of course, now that I think of
> it that would have been a slight on the Fungus Kingdom.

GEO: But then would DD be the ultimate epitome of goodness if he was 
to threaten the Dursleys? And do you think seriously think that 
Vernon would then put up with the boy for ten years if Dumbledore 
tried to threaten them? In ten years they would have tried numerous 
ways to get rid of the boy and unless Dumbledore and his order's 
attention during that interim was focused entirely on the Dursleys, 
the Dursleys would have probably pulled it off eventually.