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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 187768

> 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.

Alla:
Do you know what else sort of bugs me about blood protection thing? Why is it blood protection instead of love protection? I mean obviously the answer is that writer chose to do so, but if we are looking on the symbolic protection of mother, who gave up her life for her child, one would think that it makes sense for protection to increase ten fold, if Harry is raised by the people who love him, right?

I mean, seriously be it Molly or Sirius or any other people who love and care for him, why would not their love count more to increase Lily's protection than Petunia's blood while it obviously does not even work against her jerk husband from whose hands Harry had to duck in order not to get hit when he was younger as Harry remembers in HBP. Was it in HBP?



JMO,

Alla