Snape the Spy (WAS Re: Who was responsible for Sirius' death? ...)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 167681

zgirnius:
> > The Order knew Voldemort was after the prophecy (and 
> > this could be the information Snape provided at the
> > Order meeting at the start of OotP).

houyhnhnm:
> The meeting on the day Harry arrived at 12 GP was a 
> major meeting, according to Fred, but I think the Order 
> was alerted to Voldemort's interest in the prophecy much 
> sooner than that.  Ron tells Harry on that first evening, 
> while the meeting was still going on, that "some of them 
> are standing guard over something.  They're always talking 
> about guard duty."

Ceridwen:
Since I agree that the information about LV wanting the prophecy came 
from Snape, I snipped most of that.

I thought the guard duty Ron mentions when Harry joins them all at 
Headquarters was the guard duty on Harry.  Mrs Figg gets very upset 
when she finds that Mundungus has gone off to perhaps manage his 
illicit enterprise, and throws catfood tins at him for having left.  
Wasn't it his turn to guard Harry when the Dementor attack occurred?

Since, like Alla, I don't care to read OotP that much (I get twitchy 
reading about Umbridge), I might have this wrong, but didn't Mrs Figg 
either say or imply that there was a guard on Harry's house all that 
summer to that point?

Ceridwen.