[HPforGrownups] Re: DD's dilemma + owl post

[theotokos]

No: HPFGUIDX 126398

Lupinlore:  "OK, Harry at Dursleys, here's the reason, 
subplot closed, moving on." 
 
SSSusan: I had said that I *can* see JKR thinking so fully that DD 
saw leaving Harry with the Dursleys as his only option, that she 
never gave all the rest of those issues we've talked about that much 
thought [not checking up on him; not going back & intervening over 
the years; not threatening the Dursleys a little more -- *if* in 
fact none of that happened].
 
[among other posts blasting DD for not intervening]
 
I have been reading off and on during this thread--darn RL--but I thought the reason DD didn't intervene in HP's life at the Dursley's was because he did not want to draw attention to HP's whereabouts.  I thought this so surely that I just *knew* it was canon, but now I don't know where I got that idea--whether from the book, interviews, yahoogroups, etc.  Once HP was of age to attend Hogwarts the point was mute.  He was already "outed" so to speak.  Prior to that, his whereabouts were secret.  I thought DD didn't want to jeopardize this privacy--perhaps thinking if LV DE's wanted to find HP, then following DD--or others in his employ--as best they could would lead them to him.  No communication and therefore subsequent neglect HP suffered from the Dursley's was safer than than the alternative of being found out by the DEs.
 
SSSusan:  I've always assumed that the precise addressing of envelopes in the 
WW comes via some special magic of the owls, rather than of the 
sender.  That somehow they are able to adjust the ink so that it 
matches the true location of the recipient.

I've mentioned this before and haven't exactly been overwhelmed with 
support for the idea <g>, so I may be in a big minority. 
 
That is what I have always assumed as well.  It makes so much sense although I cannot work out the logistics, and explains why Harry can simply say "find him" and all be well.  If DD or others were able to magically *know* where someone was, why did DD need help from the portraits to find Arthur Weasley in the MOM?
 
theotokos






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