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Why did the Order only threaten the Dursleys after Harry's fifth year?

2025-03-08T19:28:13Z

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

Many readers have wondered why none of the adults who care about Harry confronted the Dursleys during his first five years at Hogwarts. What suddenly made them take action in 1996 when they hadn’t seen a need before? ( Read more... )

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PS Chapter Four: "The Keeper of the Keys"

2015-11-18T22:44:00Z

Posted by: for-diddled.livejournal.com

* I remember how in the good old days before DH came out this chapter title spurred much interesting speculation regarding potential Hagrid-St. Peter parallels.

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Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 3

2015-06-24T22:29:00Z

Posted by: sweettalkeress.livejournal.com

( Read Chapter 3 )

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Harry Potter Abridged! HBP Chapter 3

2015-05-20T14:47:00Z

Posted by: sweettalkeress.livejournal.com

( Read Chapter 3 )

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Harry Potter Abridged! OotP Chapter 2

2013-05-19T19:57:00Z

Posted by: sweettalkeress.livejournal.com

Now that my semester's over and I'm back at my parents' home for some R and R, I thought I'd celebrate with another one of these (and more to come)!

( Read Chapter 2 )

*There is a paragraph in the book dedicated to making this clear (in less tongue-in-cheek terms, obviously). Way to be meta, JKR!

**I suspect there will be more of these serious pockets in the abridged series, as we get more “strawman has a point” type situations.

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Harry Potter Abridged! OotP Chapter 1

2013-03-20T18:17:00Z

Posted by: sweettalkeress.livejournal.com

Sorry about the long delay—I switched schools this semester and have been pretty busy adjusting.

( It begins again... )

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Deathly Hallows, Chapter 3: The Dursleys Departing

2013-03-17T19:23:00Z

Posted by: oneandthetruth.livejournal.com

The American editions of this book are graced with a strange picture: Dudley and Harry are smiling at each other and shaking hands. That’s not what got my attention, however. It was the depiction of Dudley as looking like a young Incredible Hulk with normal skin tones. Either that, or he’s contracted some weird disease that made his torso swell up like a balloon.

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Pottermore : New material about Prisoner of Azkaban

2013-01-01T04:19:00Z

Posted by: dracasadiablo.livejournal.com

( Aunt Marge )

( The Knight Bus )

( Sir Cadogan )

( Kettleburn )

( Boggart )

( Snape in a dress )

Apologies if my grammar, spelling and punctuation are off.
But I just got back from a New Year party and I'm not at my best.

p.s. Happy New Year! ;D

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HBP Chapter Three: "Will and Won't"

2012-10-26T23:54:00Z

Posted by: for-diddled.livejournal.com

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A Theory about Harry's Continued Placement With the Dursleys

2012-01-29T17:48:00Z

Posted by: danajsparks.livejournal.com

Some of us have questioned why Harry had to continue to spend several weeks with the Dursleys each summer after Voldemort returned at the end of GoF. If sharing Harry's blood allowed Voldemort to touch Harry, then it seems logical that it would also allow him to bypass any magical blood protections on #4 Privet Drive. So here's an idea, inspired by Arsinoe de Blassenville's The Best Revenge.

Dumbledore could argue that the Dursleys should have custody of Harry, even though they were Muggles, because Petunia was Harry's closest living blood relative. However, his argument probably would not have been especially valid unless Harry had actually lived with the Dursleys for at least a few weeks each summer. If Harry never actually spent any time with the Dursleys, then more distant wizarding relatives might have been able to present a good case for why they should have custody of him instead.

For example, let's suppose that Harry was the grandson of Dorea Black and Charlus Potter on the Black Family Tapestry. In that case, it's quite possible that, in the summer of 1995, Harry's closest living wizarding relatives (who were not convicted criminals anyway) were his second cousins Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy. In the summer of 1995, Andromeda Tonks had long since been disinherited from the Black family, and Lucius Malfoy had the ear of the Minister of Magic. So, if Harry hadn't continued to live with the Dursleys for part of each summer, then the Malfoys might have been able to gain custody of the Boy-Who-Lived.

In a sense, then, the Dursleys did provide Harry with a "blood" protection, even after Voldemort returned. But it wasn't necessarily a magical protection; it was a legal one.

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Some Assorted Questions and Comments on the Dursleys

2011-11-05T17:34:00Z

Posted by: danajsparks.livejournal.com

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Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 1

2009-11-13T21:07:00Z

Posted by: kurzer-sommer.livejournal.com

Menial labour, inventive adjectives for 'villains,' and Dudley's poetry prowess...

( 01. The Worst Birthday )

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HBP Chapter Three

2008-08-15T09:22:00Z

Posted by: sistermagpie.livejournal.com

( Will and Won’t )

( Jabootu scores )

p.s. I feel funny about using this mood. I almost feel like it should be retired in honor of potterstinks

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OotP Chapter Two and Three

2007-11-09T10:32:00Z

Posted by: sistermagpie.livejournal.com

This was the first one of these I ever did, and I hadn't figured out just how I was supposed to go about it, so this recap is a little different from later ones. It's really more of a mini-one that was c&p'd from a comment. I would up putting two together because they're weird.

( A Peck of Owls, The Advance Guard )

It will still be a few chapters before Jabootu shows up again!

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OotP Chapter One

2007-11-02T10:28:00Z

Posted by: sistermagpie.livejournal.com

It's OotP again, where it all began. It seems I never did a reading of this first chapter, though, and wound up starting at chapter two. Which is totally awful, because it means I should probably do it now. ::sigh::

( Dudley Demented )

( Jabootu Scores )

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OotP Chapter 1

2007-06-09T21:37:00Z

Posted by: fgg-1.livejournal.com

( Dudley Demented )

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GoF Chapter Three

2007-02-25T10:03:00Z

Posted by: sistermagpie.livejournal.com

( The Invitation )

( Jabootu scores )

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CoS Chapter One

2007-02-09T10:40:00Z

Posted by: sistermagpie.livejournal.com

( The Worst Birthday )

( Jabootu Scores )

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POA: Chapter Two

2007-01-06T18:48:00Z

Posted by: kaskait.livejournal.com

( Aunt Marge's Big Mistake )

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