Harry Potter

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190828



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nerona" <nerona12 at ...> wrote:
>
> 1- In your opinion why did Petunia accept taking Harry in the first
> place?
> When DD sent the howler in Book 5 (remember my last) it was said at
> the end of the book that she sealed the magic or something when she
> took Harry.
> Why do you think she took him in the first place if she didn't show
> any love or care towards him???
> 

Nikkalmati

Petunia did not want to have anything to do with wizards after she was rejected by Hogwarts.  I think the only thing DD could have offered her was protection for her own family.  In other words he must have threatened her with DEs coming to her house unless she accepted Harry and he must have assured her they couldnot get in if Harry were there under her protection.  The howler he sent reminded her she had accepted the protection and benefited from it, so she could not go back on her promise.  I agree that she thought she could "change" Harry and wipe out the magic.

Nikkalmati
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> 
> 4- After LV's final death scene in book 7, do you think that the Dark
> Mark tattoo (I don't know what it's called, sorry) disappeared from
> the arm of the remaining Death Eaters??
> 
Nikkalmati

Based on the fact that DD's spell on Harry disappeared when he died on the Tower, I think the Dark Mark disappeared.  I suspect also that when LV was reduced to a spirit that the DM became so faint that it could not be detected; otherwise it would have been easy to find which wizards were marked members of his band.  No trials necessary - just roll up your sleeve.  Also it would not have been of any significance that Snape showed Fudge his DM in OTP to prove LV was back, if the DM had not disappeared when LV left.
>
Nikkalmati (I don't know what Draco's Boggert would be as a student, but after he took the DM it would have been LV killing his family).