Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (LONG)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 151637

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> Marianne:
> 
> While I appreciate Peggy's opinion that getting things in position 
> for the next Voldemort fight was important, I always felt there was 
> something a little dodgy about sending the most wanted fugitive in 
> England wandering about door-to-door chatting up old Order members. 

Pippin:
Who says he went door to door? I'm sure he used his patronus. Any
Order member who saw Sirius's patronus would get in touch with
Dumbledore at once, whether they believed the message or not,
which is what Dumbledore would want. 

Harry was supposed to be in a magically induced sleep -- if he'd 
taken all his potion as instructed, he  wouldn't have been awake
at all. There wouldn't have been anything Sirius could do for him
in that state.

I suspect the reason Sirius had to go into hiding immediately is that
Snape had been instructed to tell Voldemort that Sirius was back in
England and very close to Dumbledore. That is the sort of information
which Voldemort would regard as extremely useful.

Pippin