Getting hold of DD was Re: HBP Chapters 27 - 30 post DH look LONG SORRY

[pippin_999]

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> 
> Side note: Someone said that Petunia knew how to get hold of
> Dumbledore. I don't think that's quite accurate. Sure, she could
> address a letter to Professor Albus Dumbledore at Hogwarts School of
> Witchcraft and Wizardry, but where would she find a magical owl to
> deliver it? She must have persuaded Lily to send her letter to DD by
> return owl, along with Lily's acceptance of her appointment to
> Hogwarts. Unless DD wrote to her, she couldn't "correspond" with him.
> 

Pippin:
Canon suggests that a Muggle bold enough to write to Hogwarts wouldn't
need an owl.  

"Severus saw the envelope [Dumbledore's reply to Petunia] and he
couldn't believe a Muggle could have contacted Hogwarts, that's all!
He says there must be wizards working undercover in the postal service
who take care of--" --DH ch 33

Obviously Lily wouldn't have put it this way if she'd helped Petunia
to contact Hogwarts herself.


Pippin