[HPforGrownups] Re: looong - musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 158764

Alla wrote:
>
> <snip> Erm.... it worked as well as it can? You mean during the
Graveyard?
> Where do you see the protection in action there? When Harry's arm
> was sliced? Or when he was running for his life with images holding
> him up?
>
> It is possible that protection worked at privet Drive. My point is
> 1) it is not shown and 2) that we saw when it worked **not** at
> privet drive, therefore why cannot Harry stay at other place if
> protection works anyways? <snip>

Carol responds:
If you're referring to the Dementors, which as someone
(Hickengruendler?) pointed out, were sent by Umbridge, not Voldemort)
they did not attack Harry (and Dudley) at number 4 Privet Drive, where
the protection is. The attack occurs on the way home from the playpark
in an alleyway "which formed a shortcut between Magnolia Crescent and
Wisteria Walk" (OoP Am. ed. 13). They're not even on Petunia's street
(Privet Drive), let alone in her house. Notice that both Mr. Weasley
and Sirius Black tell Harry (via owl) not to leave the house for any
reason. (Mrs. Figg has already tole him to "get inside and stay
there," 24). *That's* where he's protected--and not only from
Voldemort and the DEs, apparently. And Petunia, after receiving her
Howler, also says to stay in his room and not to leave the house (41).
Evidently, she knows about the blood protection--if not the details,
at least that Harry is safe at 4 Privet Drive as long as he can call
it home. It's possible that the protection extends to the yard, but I
don't think so given the orders of the various adults, and it
certainly doesn't extend to Privet Drive itself (the street) or the
rest of the neighborhood--including that alley where the Dementors
appeared.

Carol, who thinks that those orders to stay in the house and the fact
that no Dementors attack him in the house itself constitute evidence
that the additional blood protection does work--at 4 Privet Drive and
nowhere else

Lynda:

I've always been very certain that the protection was specific.  #4 Privet
Drive, and specifically set against LV, and those he might send, not anyone
else who might want to harm Harry, so I'm pretty positive that the dementor
attack not initiated by one of Thingy's lackeys but by another evil person
doesn't apply here.


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