Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 158868

> Alla:
> 
> I am really hesitant to speak for a_svirn, but I believe that the 
> point she is making is that if Harry is just as vulnerable outdoors, 
> while living at Privet Drive, then it really does not matter where he 
> is living. So, of course he would not be spending all his time 
> indoors if protected by somebody else, but maybe those other people 
> would be better choice as somebody who cares for Harry.

Pippin:
With one exception, all of Voldemort's attacks on Harry have
taken place at night. If this is not just a coincidence, then Harry
needs protection most when it is dark. 

> 
> > a_svirn
> >  If Umbridge could come up with such a plan,
> > > why couldn't, say, Lucius?
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > If Lucius wanted to harm Harry for reasons totally unrelated to his
> > service to Voldemort, you mean? Why would he?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> No, actually, I am not sure if anything in canon contradicts the 
> premise that DE indeed could touch Harry there ( although of course I 
> can forget something). Voldemort says that he could not touch Harry 
> there, not his DE.
> 
> So, theoretically all that he had to do is to send somebody else 
> there, no?

Pippin:
Voldemort says, "Not even I can touch him there." Dumbledore
says that he had to see to Harry's protection with regard to the
surviving DE's, not just Voldemort himself. So while we haven't
seen it demonstrated, both Voldemort and Dumbledore seem to
believe it will work against DE's.

> > Pippin:
> > For your premises to be valid, a less flawed means of protection
> > must exist. Dumbledore maintains in canon that it does not. I
> > take it you don't dispute his sincerity.
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Ooooo, that would actually dissolve lots of my doubts, if you could 
> refer me to the quote that says that blood protection is the **only** 
> mean by which Harry could be protected. But I don't need the 
> reference which says that blood protection can protect Harry, only 
> that **only**blood protection can, and nothing else cannot.

Pippin:
"Your mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood the strongest
shield I could give you." 

Of course there are other means of protection -- there had better
be because the bond of blood protection runs out when Harry turns
seventeen. But none of them are as strong as the bond of blood.

Dumbledore trusts it  not least because he  believes this is
where Voldemort's knowledge of magic is  weakest.  I think there's
canon that he's right. When Voldemort talks about the Privet Drive 
protection in the graveyard, he says that Dumbledore 
arranged it. He does not appear to realize that it is  strong because 
of Lily's sacrifice.

He may believe it is weaker now that Dumbledore is dead, in which
case he could be in for a nasty surprise!

Pippin