Dumbledore and the Dursley Problem

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41217

Echa said:

 
> I do not believe that Dumbledore knew how abusive the Dursleys would
> be to Harry. Surely, he did not want Harry treated this way.

Good, the omniscient Dumbledore theory is gone. Didn't like it anyway.

> 
> However, Voldemort makes it clear that while Harry is with the
> Dursleys, he cannot be harmed. No matter what Dumbledore knows about
> Harry's life with the Dursleys, I'm certain he belives that as awful
> as Harry's emotional abuse might be, it is preferable to Harry 
being dead.
> 
> It seems that no wizard can touch him there. Voldemort cannot reach
> him, and by extension I assume that no other Death Eater can reach
> him. Otherwise, there would most likely have been AK!ed (or 
attempted
> AK!)Harry soon after he was entrusted to the Dursleys.
> 

Well, they'd go after him now, but for the first 13 years after baby 
Harry beat V-Mort, none of the DE's would have bothered. Pettigrew, 
as Scabbers, didn't try to kill Harry even though he had numerous 
chances because he saw no benefit to risking his life for a boss who 
was beaten by a baby and might well be dead. 

Whatever else Lucius Malfoy (who could be the de facto leader of the 
DEs when V-Mort is gone) is, he's not stupid. Why mess with Harry 
Potter if the Big Guy isn't there?

Seems like the safest place for Harry is to stay at Hogwarts year-
round, but that would be a nightmare to write for JKR.

I realize that outside influences -- the use of myth, the difficulty 
of writing year-round Hogwarts stories, the need to keep the 
juxtaposition of the Dursleys and Hogwarts -- have a lot to do with 
dictating that Harry stay with the Dursleys.

BUT... I want a story reason for it. I want to hear why the 
protection offered at the Dursleys is so powerful.

Because that's what we're talking about. Whatever the Durselys offer 
is so powerful that it's worth Harry being emotionally and physically 
abused. I want to know why Dumbledore couldn't find something equally 
as powerful in a better living condition.

Darrin
-- The AK'D Death-Eaters would be a great name for a band