[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 158638

>
> a_svirn:
> If there was a spy at GH he would certainly refrain to
> advertise the fact. Yet the whole wizarding community knew about the
> rebounded AK, the scar and the boy-who-lived in a matter of hours.
> And did not know any other details. Dumbledore is the only one who
> had motive and opportunity to spread the carefully edited version of
> the story. We also know from canon what means he used. He knew that
> he could trust Hagrid with his life, but couldn't trust him to keep
> his mouth shut. So he banked on it.
>

montims:
I really hadn't thought of this, but in fact yes - the WW knew Harry Potter
had lived, many hours before Hagrid actually delivered him to Privet Drive.

Interesting...  I had kind of thought, if I considered it at all, that
Hagrid would have blabbed at the pub and to the Daily Prophet, but unless he
had left Harry alone somewhere, he wouldn't have had the chance...


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