[HPforGrownups] The Seven Harrys (was Re: Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death)

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 181967

samajdar_parantap:
> Another question that comes to mind in this context is: why everyone
> else did not apparate like Mundungus

Alice:
> I would think that the reason the others didn't apparate was to
> ... distract Voldemort from the real Harry

So why didn't *everyone* (including the real Harry) just apparate the 
moment they were was clear of Privet Drive?

Alice:
 > And when Mundungus does apparate, that does indeed tip off
 > the pursuing Death Eaters that he was not the real Harry.

How? Do the DEs think Harry doesn't know how to apparate?

CJ:
 > Or just keep him at Hogwarts and not send him back in the
 > first place?

Carol responds:
 > DD has made sure that the protection at Privet
 > Drive, the strongest that he can give to Harry, is still
 > in place until his seventeenth birthday

But Harry's birthday is in July, which means Harry's only got a month of 
protection left at the Dursleys', anyway. Moving him back to Privet 
Drive merely delays the inevitable, *and* puts Harry in extra danger 
once the charm does break. Staying at Hogwart's could hardly have been 
any more dangerous than the Seven Harrys plan. If the Order didn't want 
to keep Harry at Hogwart's, it should have moved him directly into 
hiding at the end of term and sent a decoy back to Privet Drive instead.

Lee:
 > The breaking of the charm will presumably be detected by
 > the MoM, so wouldn't it be better to leave it intact?

Carol:
 > They're counting on the element of surprise rather than
 > letting it break on its own at a predetermined time.

I dunno. Just doesn't make sense. Since Snape had leaked the date to LV, 
the only surprise the Order has was in the decoy Harrys, not the timing. 
Charm or no charm, Harry was leaving that evening. The DEs knew, the 
Order knew they knew, and all the contrivances for breaking the charm 
were just useless extra complications to an already over-complicated 
plan. Whether the charm breaks or no was utterly inconsequential.

Carol:
 > Again, it's not the MoM they're worried about. It's the DEs
 > who are undoubtedly watching the place.

Exactly. The only thing the MoM can do is alert LV. But as LV already 
knows, and Privet Drive is already surrounded by DEs, the Ministry is, 
or should be, utterly irrelevant to the Order at this point. So why'd 
Moody even bring it up? Again, just say hang the MoM and is legalities 
and apparate out anyway. Or keep Harry in the house until after the DEs 
have scattered in pursuit of the decoys. Or polyjuice Harry -- or better 
yet *all* of the decoys -- to look like one of the DEs (imagine the 
confusion in the DE ranks). Or, as samajdar_parantap suggested, apparate 
the moment they're clear of the house.

--CJ (who thinks there may be more holes here than he originally 
suspected, and who's beginning to think it was colossally stupid to send 
Harry back to Privet Drive at all, instead of directly into hiding)