Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Sat Sep 23 21:20:59 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 158662

> 
> a_svirn:
> Who else? If there was a spy at GH he would certainly refrain to 
> advertise the fact. 

Pippin:

Even to other DE's, who might be rather  anxious, not to 
say insistent,  to know what had happened to their master? 
You think Hagrid has the only  loose lips in the WW?

Gimme a break!

By the time McGonagall arrived at Privet Drive, 
the whole wizarding world was whispering that the Potters are 
dead, that Voldemort was gone, and that Harry was supposed to 
have survived. But unless he was prepared to silence the
whole Ministry, Dumbledore could hardly have prevented it.

An exploded house with the bodies of James and Lily lying 
in the rubble (per Sirius in PoA)  would invite some 
sort of  investigation from the Ministry. They would be on the
scene and  able to determine that indeed James and Lily were 
dead and that Voldemort had been involved, probably within 
minutes of when Hagrid left wth Harry.

Previously captured Death Eaters would notice the vanishing
of their Dark Marks and would no doubt be singing like 
birds. Hagrid mentions that people came out of trances, In
short everyone would  know that something had happened to
Voldemort. If they didn't know where Harry was, there would
be a massive effort to find him, all when the aurors would
be better employed rounding up stunned and demoralized
DE's.

Harry looks so much like James that short of ingesting
polyjuice every hour on the hour for his entire childhood,
any wizard who saw him would know at once who he was.
McGonagall guesses immediately what the scar is, too -- 
before DD has told her anything. Presumably any 
competent wizard could do as much.

Pippin







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