Blood Protection

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 159101

> > 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.

a_svirn:
I've got a counter-question: are you sure that Dementors couldn't have
harmed Harry if they had been sent by Voldemort? Suppose Umbridge
weren't acting as a free agent, but, say, under imperio? We know she
wasn't but at first everyone in the Order seemed to believe that
Voldemort was the one behind the attack, so, apparently, it wasn't
outside the realm of the possible. 

> Hickengruendler:
> 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. <snip>

a_svirn:
But I do not ignore it. I take it at face value that Harry can't be
harmed where his mother's blood dwells. But I am saying a) that he can
be harmed elsewhere and could have been even during his first years
with the Dursleys; b) Voldemort was too preoccupied with his own
survival at the time to cause him harm – and that's canon too! c) as
soon, as Voldemort found himself a body, and I mean a body-carrier
(Quirrel) he caused him harm elsewhere. Besides, what do you mean
Dumbledore couldn't have anticipated that someone else would try to
assassinate Harry? He *should* have anticipated something like this.
As Pippin pointed out there were lots of former DE on the loose. 

All in all the protection seems both ineffective and pointless. Rather
like the infamous Age Line.