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As [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] struggles to comprehend the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dementor|Dementor]] attack and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arabella Figg|Mrs. Figg]]'s enigmatic announcement,
While [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vernon Dursley|Uncle Vernon]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]] berate him about Dudley, an owl letter from the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] arrives, expelling Harry from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], and demanding that he await the arrival of a Ministry representative who will break his wand. Harry decides his only option is to become a fugitive, but before he can get past Uncle Vernon, another owl letter arrives from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arthur Weasley|Mr. Weasley]], telling him to remain in the house while Dumbledore sorts things out. Harry, accepting this instruction, tries to explain what happened to his aunt and uncle, insisting it was Dementors that attacked Dudley. When Uncle Vernon asks what
As Harry answers questions about the Wizarding world, more owls
After hearing that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]] has returned, Uncle Vernon, recognizing the danger
== Analysis ==
Even the casual reader will be left with questions after this chapter. The largest unanswered ones are: How did Petunia learn about Dementors, and given that she knows that much, what other knowledge does she possess about the Wizarding world she has never shared? And, someone who was reasonably aware of what was happening in the house probably sent the Howler, possibly because they knew Petunia and Vernon's likely reactions
Petunia's explanation about Dementors and Azkaban not only shocks her family, but shows she knows far more about the Wizarding world than she has ever let on. Her own reaction to her utterance seems to indicate that she has hidden this knowledge even from herself. Based largely on this, Harry leaps to the conclusion that Dumbledore sent her the Howler; this is fueled largely by wishful thinking, as Harry has been unsuccessfully hoping for a communication from Dumbledore all summer. However, if the Howler is from Dumbledore, it implies that he and Petunia have had more contact than has been previously revealed: "Remember my last" implies that there has been more than one previous communication, and the letter left with Harry [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 1|at the very start of the series]] is the only message we are aware of that Dumbledore had sent to Petunia. And though Harry may be unaware of such messages, this is hardly surprising as Petunia, having been Harry's guardian, would need to be informed regarding anything affecting her nephew, regardless what her personal feelings are toward him. Though that does beg the question: why Petunia, and not Vernon, who as head of the household would presumably also need that information? The answer to this question is also withheld until much later in the series.
That Harry would be expelled from school and have his wand broken, without an official inquiry and for such a minor offense, indicates the Ministry of Magic must have some ulterior motive in moving so quickly against him. Obviously, others (apparently including Dumbledore) have intervened on his behalf, and a hearing is scheduled so Harry can defend himself. As
While Harry has been protected from Voldemort with the magic created by his mother's death, Dumbledore has, as we learned earlier, cast additional protective spells over the house as an extra precaution; this is likely part of why Arthur directed him to stay there. Also, Arabella Figg, a Squib, has apparently been watching Harry ever since he was left at the Dursleys. She explains that her rather mean behavior to him was because she knew if his aunt and uncle suspected he had a friend, she never would have been allowed to occasionally watch him. No doubt others also guard Harry whenever he stays with the Dursleys.
Petunia's rationalization of the need to keep Harry at home, to keep up appearances, is in character, of course. The Dursley family's need to keep up appearances is foremost in her mind at that point, and is probably the only thing she could use that would have any chance of reversing Vernon's decision to throw Harry out.
For reasons revealed later, the reader should particularly note Mrs. Figg's first statement in this chapter.
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Dumbledore mentions later in the book that the Howler was, as Harry surmised, from him. This, in association with comments Dumbledore makes in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 3|''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'']], would indicate he has kept a closer eye on the Dursley household than we have, to date, realized. Mrs. Figg's revelation that the house is being watched, at Dumbledore's instructions, would account for some of the knowledge he has of the Dursleys, but the sort of observation that Mrs. Figg would be capable of likely would not include sufficient detail to allow Dumbledore to understand the need for a Howler at that specific time.
It is
We never do learn if there has been any ongoing communication between Dumbledore and Petunia, but given the surprise she shows when Harry's Hogwarts letter arrives [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 3|in the first book,]] we can safely assume that there has been no communication in the intervening years.
=== Connections ===
* The letters from the Ministry are signed by one [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mafalda Hopkirk|Mafalda Hopkirk]]. Ms. Hopkirk also penned the letter sent to Harry [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 2|in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'']] following [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dobby|Dobby's]] use of the Hover Charm. In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 12|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], Ms. Hopkirk will be one of the Ministry workers that the Trio overpower as they prepare to infiltrate the Ministry.
* This is very nearly the last time we hear from Mrs. Figg, who has been a background presence at the Dursleys' through all the preceding books. We will see her once more, when she is summoned to give evidence [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 8|at Harry's Ministry hearing]].
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