<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial">(note: with the new participants, perhaps it's time for the list elves to remind everybody of the quoting rules? They work pretty well).</span><span class="im" style="font-family:Arial"><br><br>Sherrie:<br>With all due respect, if anyone is to blame for Harry being placed at the Dursleys', it's Lily. The magic she used to protect Harry - an old and deep magic - required the protection of her blood, her family. <br><br>Bart:<br>And, how many hours did Lily have to consider this? Minutes? Probably just a matter of seconds, and the first priority was to protect Harry. There really wasn't much time to consider <br><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial">Sherrie:</span><br style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Sir- She had 18 months. Lily & James were well aware that what they were doing was dangerous & could easily result in their deaths. It would be a poor magickal parent who wouldn't begin weaving the strongest protective magick they could find around their child. The magick was already in place- Lily's death was the trigger that activated it, when it was needed.</span><span class="im" style="font-family:Arial"><br>what might happen several years in the future.<br><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial">Bart:</span><br style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">The spell depended on Morty offering Lily her life in exchange for Harry's. How could she have prepared for that eventuality in advance?</span><br style="font-family:Arial"><br style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Bart</span><br><div><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial">Crescent: </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial">We actually only have Dumbledore's word that Harry needed to be there because of the blood magic. Considering how Dumbledore twisted the truth in other ways, I find it quite possible he would also have told half-truths to keep Harry there. And after Voldemort's resurrection, having Harry's blood would have let him personally through those wards so keeping him there makes no sense. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><font face="Arial">I wonder what would have happened if Neville's parents hadn't been driven insane by Bellatrix and another death eater. For they were named as godparents and would have legally been his guardians. In fact, from what I recall (which could be flawed), they were killed a week after Harry's parents. How was it that Dumbledore just walked in and took a child for whom he did not have guardianship?</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Bart Lidofsky <a href="mailto:bart@moosewise.com">bart@moosewise.com</a> [HPforGrownups] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial">(note: with the new participants,
perhaps it's time for the list elves to remind everybody of the
quoting rules? They work pretty well).<span class=""><br>
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Sherrie:<br>
With all due respect, if anyone is to blame for Harry being
placed at the Dursleys', it's Lily. The magic she used to
protect Harry - an old and deep magic - required the protection
of her blood, her family. <br>
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Bart:<br>
And, how many hours did Lily have to consider this? Minutes?
Probably just a matter of seconds, and the first priority was to
protect Harry. There really wasn't much time to consider <br>
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Sherrie:<br>
Sir- She had 18 months. Lily & James were well aware that
what they were doing was dangerous & could easily result in
their deaths. It would be a poor magickal parent who wouldn't
begin weaving the strongest protective magick they could find
around their child. The magick was already in place- Lily';s
death was the trigger that activated it, when it was needed.<span class=""><br>
what might happen several years in the future.<br>
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Bart:<br>
The spell depended on Morty offering Lily her life in exchange
for Harry's. How could she have prepared for that eventuality in
advance?<br>
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