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

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 126265


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> 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?

Hickengruendler:

I don't think the blood protection works at primary school. And if it 
did, than only because Dudley was around, another a blood relative. 
I'm not sure if the protection just works in the house, or whenever 
Harry is around a blood relative, but I don't think it's that big 
that it works in whole Little Whinging.

The Dementors were not sent by Voldemort. Dumbledore did not say, 
that Harry was protected from all evil in the Dursley household 
(after all, Dudley punched Harry several times), but that Voldemort 
couldn't harm him, there. If we assume, this also mean, that 
Voldemort also can't harm him there indirectly, through henchmen (and 
otherwise it wouldn't make much sense, and it agrees with canon, 
since Quirrell, another henchmen of V. couldn't harm Harry in PS), 
this also doesn't include the Dementors, since they were sent by 
Umbridge, and hadn't to do anything with Voldemort directly at this 
point.
 
Hickengruendler