CHAPDISC: DH 23, Malfoy Manor

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 183529

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doddiemoemoe" <doddiemoemoe at ...> wrote:
>
> Discussion Questions:
> 1) What did you think of Harry's story, that he is a Slytherin
> named Vernon Dudley whose father works at the Ministry?
> 
> Doddie here:
> 
> Probably one of the most lame/brilliant things Harry has done..
> 
> 1.  I'm quite sure that most ww folks know about the Dursley's by 
> now...Harry got lucky by being captured by those who were on the 
> fringes of WW society anyhow..

Geoff:
I woudl disagree with you over this. 

Harry does not use the name Dursley - only Vernon and Dudley. 
Now, if the wizarding world is familiar with the name Dursley - and I 
entertain serious doubts about that - I think that the possibility of them 
also knowing the Christian names of both the Dursley males is equally 
unlikely. Vernon Dudley could be anyone and, as one of his captors points 
out, there may well be a Dudley in the Ministry. Dursley just doesn't 
come into it.

So I don't think that Harry adds to any danger he is in but using that name.