Dumbledore's Magnaminity

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 143094


> PJ:
> Well, actually a_svirn, it continues with "Then she met that 
Potter at 
> school and they left and got married and had you, and of course I 
knew you'd 
> be just the same, just as strange, just as --- abnormal --- and 
then, if you 
> please, she went and got herself blwown up and we got landed with 
you!"
> 
> So yes... Between your quote and the rest of it there is no doubt 
that 
> Petunia *knew* Harry was a Wizard when she agreed to take him.  
It's canon.

a_svirn:
>From what we know of canon she had no way of knowing it for sure, 
unless Dumbledore specifically mentioned in his letter that Harry 
was on Hogwarts registrar. Which I am willing to bet he didn't. 

PJ:
 
> She had 11 years to make those decisions but it wasn't meant to 
last 
> forever.  Harry was always meant to rejoin the Wizarding World 
when he 
> reached the age to attend Hogwarts.

a_svirn:
Wasn meant by whom? Certainly not by Petunia. Being as she was 
Harry's foster mother it should have been her decision.

> PJ:
> Dumbledore, according to the Lexicon, held all these offices, as 
well as 
> Headmaster of Hogwarts during the 11 years Harry was with the 
Dursleys.  As 
> Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot (Wow! I really mangled that 
spelling my 
> first time around) he was the leader of the Wizarding World...

a_svirn:
And where it is said in canon that "Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot" 
is a leader of a wizarding world? He's no more a head of the WW than 
Michael Martin (the Speaker of Commons) is a head of Britain.


PJ: 
> I wouldn't want you to think I was pulling arguements out of thin 
air simply 
> for arguement's sake so here it is... "The magic I evoked fifteen 
years ago 
> means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call 
this house 
> 'home'.  However miserable he has been here, however unwelcome, 
however 
> badly treated, you have at least, grudgingly, allowed him 
houseroom."  (HBP 
> pg 35 Scholastic)

a_svirn:
I haven't realised that "grudgingly" means "willingly". You leave 
and learn. 

PJ: 
> Voldermort and his DE's have wiped out entire families before so 
what makes 
> Petunia and Vernon so special?  So untouchable?  

a_svirn:
It is precisely because they are not special in any way they are of 
no interest to DE and Voldemort. Only their association with Harry 
makes them a target.