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At the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Privet Drive|Dursleys' house]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] is leaning against his window, asleep. Scattered about his room are many copies of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/The Daily Prophet|the ''
[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Dumbledore]] arrives at the house to collect Harry. Despite his previously sending a letter setting the time, and Harry anxiously awaiting his arrival for nearly the entire week, he is astonished and puzzled that Dumbledore is fetching him after only two weeks at the
Dumbledore explains that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius Black]] has bequeathed Harry all his possessions, including [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|12 Grimmauld Place]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher|Kreacher]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Buckbeak|Buckbeak]]. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vernon Dursley|Uncle Vernon's]] interest is clearly piqued by the news that Harry now owns a house in London. However, Dumbledore continues, a spell may exist that automatically leaves the inheritance to the eldest surviving Black male or prevents it from passing to a non-pureblood wizard. Because Sirius was the last Black male, it would likely pass to the eldest female relative, namely [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bellatrix Lestrange|Bellatrix Lestrange]] (Sirius's cousin). To test whether Harry is the true heir, Dumbledore summons Kreacher, the loyal Black family [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/House Elf|House-elf]]. When Kreacher obeys Harry's command,
== Analysis ==
Harry and Dumbledore's vindication at the last book's conclusion had resulted in Harry once again being lionized; while not actively seen here, we somewhat sense Harry's discomfort at again being hailed the hero. While Harry acted heroically based on the information he had, and alerted the Wizarding world to Voldemort's return, he feels duped and indirectly responsible for Sirius' death. Dumbledore can certainly see this ambivalence in Harry, and while he realizes that Privet Drive is the one place he will be unable to emotionally heal, he also knows that Harry's protection from Voldemort depends on his returning there each summer. Dumbledore probably calculated the minimum time that Harry needed to stay at Privet Drive to retain his mother's protection and has arranged for more a appropriate accommodation, almost certainly [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Burrow|the Burrow]].
Dumbledore's injured hand indicates that sinister events may be underway in the Wizarding world that Harry is not yet privy to. For whatever reason, Dumbledore withholds this information, at least for now.
A small highlight on Petunia's character is seen here; as part of her nighttime routine, Petunia apparently cleans and disinfects the kitchen. We have already seen her assigning endless cleaning chores to Harry, and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nymphadora Tonks|Tonks]] had earlier mentioned that the house seemed overly clean. Petunia may suffer from an obsessive compulsive disorder, resulting in a need to have everything spotless and germ-free. She may also subconsciously be attempting to wash away any magical traces that Harry's presence has caused to spill over into her very Muggle home. Harry's thoughts about her dismay at having Kreacher appear on her parlor carpet are not surprising; Harry clearly is aware of Petunia's cleanliness fetish
It has been suggested on a number of fan sites that Dumbledore's behavior is out of character in this book. This is particularly obvious in
Many readers may be somewhat alarmed when Dumbledore offers Harry and Dudley each a glass of mead. Mead, a wine made from honey, is usually relatively strong at 14% alcohol by volume, and it would be illegal to give it to a minor in North America. Liquor laws are less restrictive in Britain, however, and though someone underage may not purchase liquor in the UK, there is nothing that prohibits someone younger than 18 years from drinking wine or beer if it is offered by an adult.
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Some theorists believe that Dumbledore used the "Kreacher test" not only to see whether Number 12 Grimmauld Place actually belonged to Harry, rather than Bellatrix Lestrange (Sirius' cousin), but also as a means to determine whether Sirius' younger brother, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Regulus Black|Regulus Black]], was still alive. (It will be learned in the next book that Regulus is the mysterious R.A.B. who had left a note that is found at the end of this novel.) This test may be inconclusive, as the tradition is that property, such as a house, is directly handed down the male family line from eldest to eldest.
The reason for Dumbledore's drastic character change can be attributed to him being injured by a ring [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcrux]], an object containing a deadly curse that should have killed him. He was able to get help from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Severus Snape]], who has kept him alive by extraordinary magical means, though only temporarily. This minute-to-minute awareness that he will soon die, and the resulting sense of urgency, is likely the cause for his changed character.
Dumbledore, speaking directly to Petunia, mentions that they have corresponded before. There were actually at least four letters, though at this point in our reading there is nothing that can be attributed as being "correspondence". Dumbledore wrote a letter, which he left, along with Harry, on the Dursleys' doorstep [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone|at the series' beginning]], and the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Howler|Howler]] addressed to Petunia in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 2|''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'']] is also revealed to have been sent by Dumbledore. There is no indication that Petunia responded to either, and correspondence does rather imply that messages are being exchanged; despite this, many readers will assume that it is either one of these letters to which Dumbledore is referring. However, we will learn, in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 33|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], that Petunia had earlier written to Hogwarts pleading for admission, and that Dumbledore responded, declining her plea on the grounds that she was unable to perform magic. Dumbledore's implied informational exchange, then, can only have been referring to this first set of letters.
=== Connections ===
Very little in this chapter, apart from the ongoing plot lines (Kreacher's antipathy for Harry and other "mudbloods", the Dursley family dynamic, Harry's treatment by the government-influenced press), could be considered to constitute any particular connection elsewhere in the series. Rather than explicitly connecting to other events, this chapter is to a certain extent a re-introduction to the Wizarding world and an exposition concerning how Harry's status has changed with the revelations at the end of the previous book.
* Dumbledore's injury, mentioned in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 2|the previous chapter of this book]], will remain unexplained until [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 33|late in the final book]].
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