Maybe someone knows the answer...

[foxmonkey]

I've been thinking about this since the first book, and with every beginning and ending since of the four books in the series that I've read.

Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia seem to hate Harry Potter with every fiber of their being, with the intense, burning hatred of a thousand fiery suns.

Why are they so hell-bent on keeping him around?

I don't get this. They don't want him to come home for holidays during the school year, but they refuse to let him visit Ron over the summer. Weh? Shouldn't they be *glad* to get rid of him? If he's gone over the summer as well, they'd practically never have to see him at all.

Enlighten me, o great thinkers of Pottermania.

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[mostlikelyto.livejournal.com]

Found it, because I'm psychotic and wouldn't be able to rest until I did. At the end of the fourth book, when Voldemort is restored to his body, he says to the Death Eaters who have gathered:

"But how to get at Harry Potter? For he has been better protected than I think even he knows, protected in ways devised by Dumbledore long ago, when it fell to him to arrange the boy's future. Dumbledore invoked an ancient magic, to ensure the boy's protection as long as he is in his relation's care. Not even I can touch him there..."

[ghostoftheyear.livejournal.com]

Ahh. Cool.