From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 4:49:27 AM UTC-7, M. Harris wrote:   
   > 11 Oct 2001 04:28:18 -0700 : Jaak Suurpere says...   
   > > rclovely@aol.com (RCLOVELY) wrote in message news:<200110110   
   3103.02567.00002467@mb-ft.aol.com>...   
   > > > >To me, it seems  impossible to impose this law onto children whom are   
   > > > >born to magic.    
   > > >    
   > > > I agree, and this law has to be unenforceable.  I think    
   > > > there are safeguards at the Dursley's, that are part of    
   > > > Harry's protection,     
   > > > that let the Ministry know if magic is going on there.     
   > > >    
   > > I doubt it. There was the great contrast between the harsh and   
   > > routine-seeming reaction of Mafalda in CoS and the reaction of   
   > > Cornelius in PoA.   
   > > My suspicion is that Dobby also tipped Mafalda off.   
   > >    
   >    
   > Did no one read the book? Dobby was *sent* to perform some magic so that    
   > Lucius Malfoy could inform the Ministry that magic was going on in that    
   > house, presumably by Harry, in order to get him into trouble and hopefully    
   > expelled from Hogwarts. This was the whole point of all that nonsense.   
      
   I had gotten the impression that Dobby had come on his own to warn Harry not   
   to return to Hogwarts!  When Harry rejected the warning, Dobby performed the   
   Hover Charm, possibly in hopes of either causing Harry's guardians to lock him   
   up and thus keep him    
   away from Hogwarts, or to get Harry expelled.   
      
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