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

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 181983

Jayne:
> Where would it have been safe to apparate to during the chase.?

Safe - probably not. But then neither was there anything safe about NOT 
apparating, and letting DEs take potshots at you, either. Didn't 
Mundungus Fletcher manage to apparate out (Did he apparate? I can't find 
a specific mention of it)?

Jayne:
 > Also they would have all had to do this as anyone left
 > would be the real Harry as he and Hagrid couldn't
 > do that.

I'm also wondering what Hagrid was doing there. As much as I like the 
guy, LV isn't too far off the mark calling him an "oaf". Brings to mind 
a description of Samwise Gamgee: He's a stout fellow, who'd leap down a 
dragon's throat to save you, if he didn't trip over his own feet first.

To Carol:

I've found a partial answer to some of my earlier questions at the 
beginning of chapter 6:

"Well, you can't do anything about the" -- Ron mouthed the word 
Horcruxes -- "till you're seventeen. You've still got the Trace on you."

The implication here is Harry can be traced (ahem, *Traced*) by the MoM. 
Does this mean he can be traced even through an Apparation? If Harry had 
Disapparated (legalities notwithstanding) out of Privet Drive, would the 
Ministry be able to see where he Apparated to? That might explain why 
Apparating wasn't an option for Harry on that particular night (though 
it would have been nice for Moody to have made that clear, instead of 
dragging red herrings across the discussion). And so, since the Order's 
intent was to surprise the DEs by moving Harry early, they couldn't wait 
until the Trace broke.

It still doesn't explain why Harry was sent back to Privet Drive in the 
first place, instead of a safehouse, or what in the Wizarding World DD 
was thinking setting him and half the Order up for a suicide mission, or 
why the Order couldn't, say, have polyjuiced Harry into Dudley and snuck 
him out with the Dursleys. But at least it may explain why he didn't 
just Apparate.

In re-reading chapters 4 and 5, however, another thought has occurred to 
me. The Order has at least a dozen safehouses scattered around England, 
hidden behind magical shields even LV can't penetrate, at least if the 
Weasleys' house was any indication.

So why didn't they just turn Privet Drive into another safehouse? It 
would appear the Order's magical protection around the safehouses was at 
least as effective as Lily's charm in keeping out the baddies, so why 
not wrap up the Dursleys' place while they were at it?

CJ -- still scratching his head, though maybe not so much in that one 
spot anymore.