khagler Wrote:There's also the whole lack of security in the "secure" environment to consider. From what we see in canon the protection (if it exists at all) is so full of holes as to be worthless.The protections with the Dursleys worked fine in protecting and hiding him from Voldemort and those that served him. The only wizards that Harry ran into were those that had no hostile intentions to him, and even then, the reported Potter sightings were all over the map. (Plus, 'those that serve Voldemort' likely includes those that serve those who serve Voldemort, and so on, so hiring someone is likely out. Also, why would Malfoy care? As far as he knows, Voldemort is dead forever, and he got away clean for the crimes he had committed. He wasn't as crazy as Bellatrix or Crouch Jr. were, to want revenge on Harry, or to try to resurrect Voldemort. The same could probably be said of most of those that used the Imperious Defense in court. They weren't planning on Voldemort coming back.)
My theory is the Malfoy and company found Harry long before he got to Hogwarts--and then realized that there was nothing they could do to him that was worse than what Dumbledore had already done. Perhaps they spent their weekends sitting around under magical concealment eating popcorn and watching Harry's home life...
Anyway, other than the Potter sightings that were reported in the news, what other holes do you see in the protections?
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