Yes, that's a big loophole.

If you're doing manipulative Dumbledore, you could have some Order member following him all the time and 'steering' fans away from Harry (and those few incidents being just lapses in security).

 

I think Sepanto is writing but wanted some advice before he actually started. Regardless of who writes it it's a great idea. I hope to read it someday.

 

The bit about the protections that I don’t thing anyone has picked up is that no-one with ill intent can touch Harry. Not even Vernon.

Remember in OotP when Vernon ‘tried’ to grab him by the neck and got a shock. Just imagine if he tried to hit Harry? I personally don’t think that it could happen, thus why the books only mentions verbal abuse. But I’d have to check that out more and find the correct quotes to be completely certain. I know I’ve heard mention of a broken bone once, but I haven’t found it in the books, so I take it as something, someone made up.

Now, the run ins that Harry had before Hogwarts were with fans, and thus didn’t pose any true threat to Harry. I would imagine from what I know of the protections, that while he lived full time with the Dursley’s, he couldn’t even be approached by someone with ill intent.

But I could do a more in depth check and look for the mentions of the protection in the book, so that you know what I mean.

 

Yeah, I have a rabid bunny sending Harry to Beabaxtons (sp?) and it’s been bothering me for a few days now. Just ask Lord Ravenclaw, It sort of jumped at me…I just hope it won’t bare its teeth anytime soon…

 

That being the case, how is it that Dudley and his friends were able to beat on Harry all the time during his childhood? Dudley does have Lily's blood through Petunia, but his friends don't fall under that category, and they certainly had ill intent when they held him down so Dudley could pound on him. Also, if the blood protections were so omnipotent, then Snape wouldn't have been able to attack Harry in the sixth book, nor would Draco have been able to injure him as he did on the train.

 

Um... Petunia smashed Harry's head in with a frying pan in book 2. I think that qualifies as "ill intent." (This was right after Harry scared Dudley by wiggling his fingers and saying 'abracadabra,' or some nonsense.)

Edit: Oops. Sara said it.


I'm rather tempted to write an AU right now....

 

Along with the dementor's attacking Harry in OOTP. It's assumed that if the blood protections only immediatley covered the hosue and the yard, then Harry would of been confined indoors all his life. What were they, a few blocks down from his house when they got attacked?

 

An idea? maybe "the diary" falls into harry's hands and turns him against the muggles?

 

Interesting, how would Harry get it early on, and why would it not take him over?

 

I don't think it can. Voldemort has trouble fifth year and that is with fifty years more experience, and with such similar backgrounds the diary may feel some sort of kinship with him and if the Diary doesn't talk to anyone else then it would not know about what happened to its elder self, but yeah I could really see the Diary as a good instructional tool with its ability to pull Harry into its memories, it could teach Harry most of Hogwart's schooling, and it being not under Dumbledore's watch it may be a better schooling then Harry would have had.

But, yeah the only rub is how the Diary gets into Harry's hands so early. I don't know myself.

 

The diary could have been found in a ministry raid on Malfoy Manor during the first fall of Voldemort. That way it doesn’t have anyone to write in it and tell it what happened. At witch point it’s just a thing of portraying a corrupt Ministry and it being ‘misplaced.’

If written correctly it could work, but I still don’t know how it could reach Harry’s hands. It could be that it was pawned and Harry finds it. It could be that the person that ‘stumbled’ into the diary also happens to run into Harry. It could be that some simple ‘weak minded’ wizard steals it from the ministry and the 16 year old soul of Tom makes him deliver the Diary to Harry.

There are lots of possibilities, and if you take into consideration the sketchy timeline on the prophecy and when it was spoken and what information the diary has, then it could very well work out. Now, the motives that the diary has to be taken with Harry are another thing.

But that’s what’s interesting about the idea, right?

 

Hrm or just have it place a very strong attraction charm on it of some sorts so it always winds up in the hands of a parseltongue.

 

Maybe harry really wanted a diary, and because it was so bloody old the shopgiver gave it to him for free.