looong - musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 158800

Alla wrote:
> >
> > <snip> 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 earlier:
> 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). <snip>
 
> 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 responded:
> 
> 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.

Carol responds:
That wasn't my main point, in any case. I was arguing that the
protection is specific to the house at 4 Privet Drive and that Harry
isn't safe in the alleyway or even on Privet Drive itself, a point we
seem to agree on. And, of course, Mr. Weasley, Sirius Black, and Mrs.
Figg all thought that the Dementors had been sent by Voldemort, who
can't harm Harry inside the house.

The question of whether other agents of evil such as Dementors can
harm him there isn't really answered in canon, but I think that the
protection extends to them as well--even possibly to the Dursleys
themselves since Mr. Dursley received an electrical shock when he
tried to choke Harry. (That could be the original blood protection, of
course, but why would one blood protection apply only to Voldemort and
his agents and the other to anyone who tries to harm Harry when
they're both based on Lily's sacrifice?)

Carol, who thinks that Harry should spend the whole month of July
(until his birthday) at the Dursleys' to make the most of that small
bit of remaining protection