DD's Dilemma

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 126478


Bonnie:
 > Maybe what I'm saying is, Is it possible for DD to know as much 
about 
> > Harry's life as we do?  I say no.  Opposing views are welcome. :)

Lupinlore: 

> You may well be right, Bonnie.  If so, it would be VERY helpful to
> have that explained to us.  At the moment, though, we do have DD's
> statement about how "I have watched you more closely than you can 
have
> imagined."  

Finwitch:

Well, I do think that 'Albus Dumbledore'-Chocolate Frog Card could be 
doing that for him. Possibly even Harry's wand-core (via Fawkes). And 
whatever-alerts-the-ministry-of-Harry-using-magic at Dursleys. And 
Mrs Arabella Figg. He may even have something akin to Marauder's Map, 
showing Privet Drive & Magnolia Crescent & Harry's school; he may 
have a clock like Mrs Weasley's showing Harry -- so yes, plenty of 
ways for Dumbledore to keep watch on Harry and not have the knowledge 
on just how bad it was for Harry to live among his Muggle relatives.

Hagrid has better idea, after Harry told him what Vernon did to 
Hedwig (did he do something about it? After all, Hedwig was no longer 
padlock-caged in PoA), but it's Ron (and F&G) who know more.

As for Vernon not trying to kill Harry-- I disagree. He *has* tried 
to kill Harry by means of starvation; in OOP he tried to strangle 
Harry... and what of Petunia nearly hitting Harry with a frying pan 
on the head? Or death by the dehydration over weeding the garden in 
heat? I'm surprised Harry survived the Dursleys, myself.

Finwitch