CHAPDISC: PS/SS 1, The Boy Who Lived and Avatar SPOI...

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 187762

> > Alla:
> > My point is that all we know is that  *strangers* approached 
> > Harry, they could have been Order members, they could have 
> > been Voldemort spies.
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> We can say with some certainty that one of the three was Daedalus 
> Diggle, as noted by zanooda uplist a way. The other two could have 
> bben neutral or as above.

Alla:

Right, sorry, of course. I saw Zanooda's post and I believe in my initial responses said that one of them could have been a spy or something, or at least was planning to say it.

As I said in another post I am just thinking about the totality of circumstances. Could the other two be Order members as well? Of course!

I just do not know that. And then you add this to me not seeing that some DE was looking for Harry and failed and when you add your observation below that protection works only around the house, I wonder if it was worth it and whether Dumbledore even bothered to think about it.

> Goddlefrood:
> 
> It only works immediately around the house, iirc, otherwise the 
> Seven Potters would have been unnecessary when leaving the same. 
> Out in the town, as Harry was in the case under discussion, the 
> protection was, IMO meaningless and therefore, it has to be said 
> that the chances are that the two unknown wizards were not hostile 
> to Harry. That they seemed friendly from his point of view should 
> further reinforce the idea that they were not anti-Harry.
>

Alla:

Sure, I think it is likely. And again, if protection was meaningless around the town, why can't Harry be without it? Certainly it did not look to me that he was protected in Hogwarts much, I mean was enough mortal peril, me thinks.

Of course again, we would not have story otherwise, but I do not care about that for this argument.