Rereading SS/PS question(s)/Harry's protections

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154079

Alla wrote:
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> I mean, if those folks are Order Members, then I have no case, it is 
> just I am incredibly puzzled of their way of keeping watch over 
> Harry - deliberately directing Harry's attention to them.
> 
> To me those folks seem to be doing what Steve suggested as his 
> second idea - thanking Harry, etc, basically doing celebrity 
> hunting. And if they do THAT, Dumbledore's security measures do not 
> seem to be worth a dime to me, since anybody can locate Harry, 
> anybody. IMO of course.

Carol responds:
If they're Order members who, like Dedalus Diggle, can't resist
greeting Harry, where's the harm? He's not going to grow up as a
celebrity because he doesn't know who they are or why they're greeting
him. (But their approaches could explain why Petunia is so insistent
on her story that Harry's parents were killed in a car crash and her
"Don't ask questions!" approach, as well as Vernon's "There's no such
thing as magic!" if Petunia tells him about these incidents.)

I don't see how Order members, who know that he lives in Little
Whinging, saying hello to him indicates that "anybody" could find him.
Even if the DEs wanted to, how would they know where to find him? How
would they know that Lily evans Potter had a Muggle sister named
Petunia Dursley who lived in Little Whinging?

BTW, I don't think that the Order members (or whoever they are)
showing up in droves on the day that Voldemort is vaporized is a
matter of concern (breaking the Statute of Secrecy or whatever).
They're not performing magic, and the Muggles would find some
nomagical explanation for them (and for the owls that are reported on
the Mugglee news), just as Uncle Vernon does (wearing costumes and
collecting for some cause). The Muggles never notice people vanishing
through the glass to enter St. Mungo's (though how the sick wizards
could blend into the crowd as Moody suggests is a bit hard to
explain). And they never see the Knight bus bumping through the
countryside forcing trees and fire hydrants to move aside. As Stan
Shunpike says, "They don't see nuffink, do they?"

Maybe the explanation is simply that JKR didn't think out this
particular detail from the earliest books. In any case, whoever the
people are (and I do think they're former Order members or members of
DD's extensive spy network), that there's any cause for concern over
Dumbledore's security methods at Privet Drive.

Carol, still wondering why JKR has repeatedly drawn Dedalus Diggle to
our attention