Blood Protection

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158957

> a_svirn:
> The easiest explanation is that one went off the
> > mark, surely? Even if they thought the scar suspicious it's a
big leap
> > to conclude that the Dark Lord was vanquished and lost his body.
Not
> > to mention, that it's not professional for the Law Enforcement
> > officers to share their speculations with general public right
after
> > the murder was discovered.
>
> Pippin:
>
> Not if everyone knows that Voldemort is missing and Harry is
alive.
> Those rumours would spread from the DE's and the aurors to
everyone
> else, unprofessional or not.

a_svirn:
And just how does everybody know that Voldemort is missing? Aurors
wouldn't have known anything on the matter, as for death eaters why
on earth would they want to spread any rumours? To what purpose?
Surely without Voldemort they are less fearsome and more vulnerable.
If anything, they would want to keep his disappearance in secret for
as long as possible. And how do you think did they set about
spreading rumours without compromising themselves?

> Pippin:
The WW is too small to keep secrets like
> that. It's like living in a village. Would you have liked the DE's
story,
> that Harry survived because he was a greater Dark Wizard than
> Voldemort, to be the only one out there?

a_svirn:
Yeah? It was big enough to keep secrets like Lilly's sacrifice,
Barty Crouch Jr. early release, the Prophesy No1 and No2.

> Pippin:
> It was hard on Harry to be greeted as a hero, but at least he
> didn't have to face everybody thinking he was a dark wizard
> all his life.

a_svirn:
I don't think it was hard on Harry to be hailed at the Leaky
Cauldron etc. Unless you mean Snape's welcoming speech, Harry took
all the greetings in his stride. Well, maybe he wasn't what you'd
call blasé, but he certainly didn't mind them.

> Pippin:
> Harry was removed from the wizarding world because that's where
his
> only blood relation was living. Everything else is secondary.

a_svirn:
You are just restating Dumbledore's reasons instead of defending
them. Yes, he placed Harry where he did because that's where Lilly's
blood dwelt. Yes, he thought that everything else was secondary.
However, from the way the events unfolded it looks like he was
wrong. Because Harry came close to dying several times and his
survival owes nothing to the blood protection.

> Pippin:
>Dumbledore
> explains why he does not want to draw attention to the blood
protection.
> Voldemort knows of it, but he always discounts it, and this is a
weakness
> that Dumbledore believes he can exploit.

a_svirn:
I seem to remember that Voldemort underestimates *love* not *blood*.
He has a very healthy respect to blood in general, and to Harry's
blood in particular.

> > a_svirn:
> > As I said, Harry does not spend all his time indoors.
>
> Pippin:
> And he would if he was being protected by, say, Sirius and Lupin??

a_svirn:
Between being safe indoors and abused and safe indoors and loved I'd
say Harry would choose the latter. Who wouldn't?

> Pippin:
> If Lucius wanted to harm Harry for reasons totally unrelated to his
> service to Voldemort, you mean? Why would he?

a_svirn:
Funny you should ask that. It so happened that Lucius planted the
diary for the reasons totally unrelated to Voldemort and it almost
got Harry killed. Again. And he didn't survive because of the blood
protection. Again.

> > a_svirn:
> > My version is:
> > (1) There are *ways* the child can be protected.
> > (2) The protection Dumbledore chose is flawed.
> > (3) Ergo he could have chosen another protection, less flawed.
> >
>
> Pippin:
> For your premises to be valid, a less flawed means of protection
> must exist.

a_svirn:
I'd say Fidelius is no more flawed, than the blood protection. If
Dumbledore had problems with trusting people he could make himself a
secret-keeper.