Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry/Snape and Harry at DADA

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 158872

Alla wrote:
> <snip>
> Right, Voldemort's quote is the one I was referring too and I 
> interpret not even I can touch him there as "not even such great 
> wizard as me can do it". Where is the part that DE cannot do it 
> either?

Carol responds:
I know you were asking Pippin, but I hope you don't mind my answering
it instead. "Not even I" means the same as "no one, not even I." IOW,
no one, not even Voldemort, can harm him at 4 Privet Drive. And that
would include Dementors, which is why Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Figg, and
Sirius Black were so insistent on Harry staying in the house. (It
doesn't matter who sent them. He's safe in the house.)

Consider this similar sentence: "Not even chocolate tastes this good!"
means "*nothing*, not even chocolate, tastes this good." It doesn't
mean that only chocolate tastes good. It includes every other food,
just as Voldemort's sentence includes every other wizard or other
being that might try to harm Harry.

If Voldemort had said, "I can't touch him there," he could mean that
the protection extends only to him. But "not *even* I" means that no
one else can, either. That's simply the meaning of the English words.

Carol, with apologies for answering only one point, but this one is
cut and dried