[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: PS/SS 1, The Boy Who Lived and Avatar SPOI...

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 187767

Alla:

Well, yes. My point is that all we know is that  *strangers* approached
Harry, they could have been Order members, they could  have been Voldemort
spies. I just think that this does not show the strength  of the protection.

Melissa:  
 
I wish JKR had let up see the strength of the protection (I imagine it being
a huge bug zapper :-) ) but since she doesn't its enough for me to believe
that it is strong. . especially since LV knows that he cannot get  to him
there.  
 
 

Sherry now:
I guess it didn't matter that his uncle could still abuse him though.  Just
as long as no dark wizard could hurt him, who cared if his uncle abused him?
I'm really with Alla on this blood protection thing.  Because we never see
it do anything, and because Harry was clearly mistreated and abused by his
relatives, I have no confidence in or respect for the blood protection.
Except as a plot device to give us a boy who would have had such a miserable
life, that he'd wholeheartedly love and embrace the new world, when he
learns he's a wizard.

Sherry