[HPforGrownups] Umbridge as catalyst

[James Sharman]

No: HPFGUIDX 162126

montims:
I've been thinking again about OotP, and realise again just how much DD
miscalculated LV at the beginning of the book...

If Umbridge had not sent the Dementors, Harry would likely have just spent a
very long, lonely and frustrating summer holiday, then gone back to school
knowing nothing about 12 GP, the Order, or anything else (Hermione and Ron
would presumably have still been forbidden to tell him, for the same
reasons). He would have understood even less the purpose of the Snape
occlumens lessons...

[snip]

James:

You make a good point. But remember how Harry has always been picked up and
taken somewhere towards the end of the summer holiday. I suspect the plan
was to always bring Harry to No.12 to meet up with everyone before term and
be properly defended on his journey to hogwarts. The incident with the
dementors merely forced there hand on the timing.