[HPforGrownups] Umbridge as catalyst

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 162130

>
> 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.


montims:
true - he's been picked up and moved by JKR, but not necessarily by DD -
after PoA, for example, he runs away after the Aunt Marge incident and is
taken to Diagon Alley by the Knight Bus.  That was very contrary to DD's
intentions, with Sirius on the loose.  In Goblet, he is invited to the QWC,
but that's ok because LV has still not returned.  In Order, LV has returned,
and DD fears that he is targeting Harry, so no, I don't think DD would have
wanted him out of the protection of Privet Drive or the Guard for a minute
more than necessary.  I suspect, in fact, he would have sent Hagrid (if he
had returned) or Moody to escort Harry to Hogwarts at the last minute.  In
HBP, DD himself escorts Harry to the Burrow, which "has been given the
highest security the Ministry of Magic can provide".

And, by the way, while looking for that quote I read the explanation at the
end again to see if DD tells Harry what he had intended to do, and that is
not there, but "It was my fault that Sirius died," said Dumbledore clearly.
"...Sirius was a brave, clever and energetic man, and such men are not
usually content to stay at home in hiding while they believe others to be in
danger..."  It seems DD has now learned the lesson that he cannot expect
people to just sit around waiting for him to fix things.  If Harry HAD been
Kissed, or otherwise attacked, DD would have said the same about him.


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