Dumbledore's letters to Petunia (Re: Petunia's Eyes)

[sylviampj]

No: HPFGUIDX 169976

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amis917" <amis917 at ...> wrote:
>
> >>>> I do, however, think that the Potters would have planned for 
some 
> alternate care for Harry in the case of their deaths. Especially 
when 
> they thought that the person they were going to leave Harry with, 
> Sirius, had betrayed the Order. >>>

The Potters didn't believe that Sirius had betrayed the order. Other 
people thought that after the Potters died. The Potters knew he 
wasn't the Secret Keeper any more but after they were killed noone 
else knew that they had switched to Peter Pettigrew.

I'm not sure whether they would have made special provision for 
Harry. Harry was with them and I don't think that they ever for one 
moment envisaged that he would survive if they died. But I'm 
reminded of the scene in OOTP where Molly Weasley tackles the 
Boggart and sees it take the shape of all the members of her family 
in turn, including Harry which is rather touching. She weeps on 
Remus Lupin's shoulder and says something like 'half the family are 
in the order - I wonder whether they'll all survive' and Lupin says 
something like 'Do you really think that the Order would let Ron and 
Ginny starve if anything happened to you and Arthur?' (I'm sorry, i 
don't have my copy of OOTP to hand to give the exact quotation). the 
point is that the Order of the Phoenix at both times was very close-
knit and there was an understanding that if someone died that 
provision would be made for their children. 

Sylvia.