Blood Protection

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 159086

  
> a_svirn:
 To cause harm 
> Voldemort needed to obtain a body first. As soon as he did, he 
> caused harm.
>

Hickengruendler:

Not at the Dursleys, no. He didn't. And are you sure, that Harry is 
only safe inside the house? I thought he's safe as along as he was 
around his relations. Meaning in school he couldn't be attacked by 
Voldemort because of Dudley, (sadly, this did not protect him *from* 
Dudley), and when he was shopping with Aunt Petunia, he couldn't be 
attacked either. Of course this still didn't protect him *all* the 
time, but at least more than just when he's in the house. I know that 
it is left open so far, and that your interpretation could just as well 
be true, but that's how I understood it. The Dementors where not sent 
by Voldemort, and therefore they don't count as an counter-example for 
Harry being endangered when a blood relative was around. Dumbledore 
could not have forseen, that a ministry offical, who is not connected 
to Voldemort, of all people would try to assinate Harry.

But anyway, both Dumbledore and Voldemort, basically the leaders of the 
two sides, tell us that the reason Voldie didn't harm Harry at the 
Dursleys was the protection spell. Therefore you cannot simply ignore 
it, just because it doesn't fit with your interpretation. Like I said, 
Voldemort did not cause any harm at Privet rive so far. Not even after 
his return. I am sure this will change in book 7, when the protection 
spell doesn't work anymore, but so far the new powerful Voldie did not 
visit Little Whinging, and neither did any of his hechmen.

Hickengruendler