From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   Early in Sorcerer's Stone: A Hogwarts letter arrives addressed to Harry Potter   
   in the Cupboard, but Uncle Vernon confiscates it.  Harry Potter is moved to   
   the Smallest Bedroom.     
      
   The next day, another letter arrives, addressed to Harry Potter in the   
   Smallest Bedroom upstairs (how does Hogwarts know where Harry SLEEPS?).  The   
   day after that, 3 letters for Potter arrive before 7 am, right into Uncle   
   Vernon's lap.     
      
   Vernon boards up the mail slot, but on Friday, 12 letters arrive for Potter,   
   pushed under the door, slotted along the sides of the door, and pushed though   
   the downstairs bathroom window.     
      
   Vernon boards up the cracks in the doors, but DOESN'T board up the windows.    
   On Saturday, 24 letters are hidden inside eggs and handed through the living   
   room window by a confused milkman.   
      
   On Sunday, 30-40 letters come down the chimney!  At that point, Vernon packs   
   up the entire family and drives them to the Railview Hotel in Cokeworth.  100   
   letters are waiting for harry the next morning, so the Dursleys and Potter   
   drive and boat to the    
   Hut On The Rock on The Sea.  At midnight that night (Tuesday, July 31, 1991)   
   Hagrid arrives to give Harry his Hogwarts letter.   
      
   At any time between Harry Potter being moved to the Smallest Bedroom and that   
   Sunday when the Dursleys started their field trip, why doesn't Dumbledore just   
   have an owl with a Hogwarts letter just fly up to Potter's bedroom window at   
   night and tap until    
   Harry opens it, then let Harry remove the letter and read it?  (I assume that   
   owls had dropped the letters into the chimney that Sunday).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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