...what book was the series up to by the time J.K. Rowling finally revealed the reason why Harry had to stay with the Dursleys each summer? I want to say book four, but I can't find my copy of Goblet of Fire.
[ March 28, 2008, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Book five. It was after Harry destroyed Dumbledore's office.
See? Now I am wanting to read HP again. It's like ice cream.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: ...what book was the series up to by the time J.K. Rowling finally revealed the reason why Harry had to stay with the Dursley's each summer? I want to say book four, but I can't find my copy of Goblet of Fire.
Could it have been 4? No, because Harry was a wreck at the end of that book. I don't think Dumbledore had any time to explain anything to him.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
Oooh, ice cream?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tara: Oooh, ice cream?
Yeah, chocolate ice crean with brownies and hot fudge and whipped cream
Or maybe cookies and cream.
Now i want to buy some haagen daas, oreo like cookies, mash them together, leave it in the freezer for several hours then read HP again.
Posted by Liaison (Member # 6873) on :
This is completely off the top of my head, but I believe that it was explained nearer to the end of the series. I'm tempted to say it was at the end of either 5 or 6. I'm almost positive it was not in Goblet. I recall a conversation with Dumbledore about it being important that Harry return to the Dursleys one last time. Perhaps that was in 6 then during one of their private 'lessons'.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Found my copy of GoF. Voldemort makes an enigmatic reference to Dumbledore invoking an older type of "blood kin" magic that protected Harry during his Dursley-dwellling summers...though it's not explained in detail until OotP.
One thing I recall from almost every HP review way back in the year 1999 (when I discovered the series) was just how obviously contrived the setup with the Harry living with the Dursleys had become by book three. Did she seek a way to justify it? Or was it all part of her master plan from the start?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Considering that it was set up in book 1, I'm pretty sure it was designed that way from the start.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Considering that it was set up in book 1, I'm pretty sure it was designed that way from the start.
Well, the explanation given in book one (Dumbledore didn't want Harry growing up famous before he could even understand why/assumed his Aunt would take good care of her kin once she read his letter) isn't what we some books later were told was the actual reason. In retrospect I can make it fit...Aberforth revealing that Albus was taught by his own mother from childhood onward to make a secret of nearly everything, wanting to keep McGonagall from knowing dangerous secrets and making her a bigger target, etc...but I can't help wondering.
[ March 29, 2008, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
That wasn't exactly what I was referring to... I know there's deeper foreshadowing of it but I don't have the book accessible right now. Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
In the first book, there's not much about the hows and whys of Harry's Dursley years beyond Dumbledore's misleading (not to say outright false) explanation to McGonagall, and his veiled remarks about the protection Lily Potter gave Harry some chapters later.
I'm not sure what the deeper foreshadowing you refer to is, but it must have been some pretty vague stuff. Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Synesthasia was right in her first post. The first time the real reason was given to Harry was at the end of book 5, when Harry has just finished destroying Dumbledore's office. At the end of book four, Ron tells Harry that his mother tried to get Dumbledore to let him go straight to the burrow and skip the Dursley's, but Dumbledore refused and didn't explain why Harry had to go to Privet Drive.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Synesthasia and andi330 are both correct. It was in Book 5 after Harry tried to wreck Dumbledore's office and was then given a barrage of information from Dumbledore about why he had to languish at the Dursley's every summer.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Harry Potter deos not make me want ice cream. It makes me want bacon and sausage and shepherd's pie.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by romanylass: Harry Potter deos not make me want ice cream. It makes me want bacon and sausage and shepherd's pie.
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