The Milkman Hasn't Cometh ( was: Weighing In Very Late

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" wrote:
> > BTW, is this yet another flint: Petunia is described as shrieking
> > with horror on finding baby Harry on her doorstep when she opened
> > her front door to collect the milk. But wouldn't a muggle milkman
> > have noticed a baby lying on there and done something about it? 
> 
Talisman:
> In this case, my text reads that Petunia found Harry when she 
> *opened the front door to put out the milk bottles* (PS/SS 17).  
> 
> This would indicate that the milkman had not come yet, though 
> apparently he was expected sometime later that morning.
> 
> I wouldn't have been alarmed even if the text had provided that she
> found Harry whilst going to *collect* the milk.  
> 
> That would merely explain her motivation in checking the front 
> stoop; it would not follow that there was actually any milk to 
> collect.
> 
> I'm quite sure DD put temporary repelling charms all around the 
> area.  I imagine such charms would have been the least
> of the protections in place.
> 

Carolyn:
Ok, fair cop - should have checked the actual wording. I could start 
a ghastly British Thread by explaining you put empty milk bottles 
out the night *before* for collection, because milkmen collect and 
deliver at unseemly hours in the early morning, waking you up if you 
have only just dozed off after worrying into the small hours..but I 
WON'T WON'T WON'T, right?

But I see JKR/DD thought of everything. Silly me.

> 
> Talisman, saying: steady on...
>

Splutter..pots, kettles, black etc...

Carolyn