CHAPDISC3: Protection Lost at 17???

[tylerswaxlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 142669

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:


People are always confusing and intermixing Lily's Sacrifice 
Protection and the Dumbledore's Protection by Lily's Blood at the 
Dursley's. 
 Steve/bboyminn

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But wasn't Lily's Sacrifice Protection nullified, or, at least, 
abated, in GOF?  Harry's blood was used to restore Voldemort, and now 
Voldemort should be able to touch Harry.  Don't have the dang book 
handy, sorry.

Dumbledore's Protection by Lily's Blood may have some unknown 
constraint having to do with childhood and a childhood home, which is 
why he was required to live at a blood relative's house at least part 
of a year.  

Wizarding World children may become adults at 17 for a magical reason--
childhood protection charms may cease to have affect at that point.  
Seventeen is the age when they are allowed to Apparate and do more 
sophisticated magic, but maybe there are magical constraints that 
prevent children from Apparating before 17.  Think about how difficult 
it would be to corral preschoolers if they were Apparating 
everywhere.  Certain stronger magics may have built-in childlocks.

There's no canonical proof either way, b/c we've never really been 
told what Dumbledore did or what he told Petunia.  But I can see 
Dumbledore's spell wearing off as Harry came of age.  
  

Tyler