Harry and the Dursleys

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54635

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "imamommy at s..." <imamommy at s...> 
wrote:
> why *didn't* the Dursley's turn Harry over to an 
> orphanage?  I sure would like a peek at the letter Dumbledore wrote 
> them.  What could he possibly say that would have compelled them to 
> keep him?  And why would they keep him if they never intended to 
even 
> try to love him?

Harry was just a child they might rid of magic (that's what they 
thought, anyway). Tom Marvolo Riddle was raised in orphanage and 
turned out to be an extremely bad wizard, Voldemort, who went and 
killed the relatives who had abandoned him, as well as Harry's 
parents and was now *gone* because of Harry - if Dumbledore told them 
that, I think Dursleys would be too frightened not to.

Still, they do not care of Harry. Dumbledore will tell all that to 
Harry in the next book, I guess - what Dumbledore *should* have told 
Harry five years ago and only does now, and what Harry should have 
asked long time ago: "Why do I go back to Dursleys?" - and once he 
*has* asked that, I honestly doubt he'll go back again! After all, 
Dursleys lack of care can be lethal too. They may not starve him to 
death but they come close enough (might have been successful if not 
for Harry's friends sending him cakes and candy); Dursleys pretending 
Harry doesn't exist to the world wouldn't take Harry to see a 
doctor/hospital if Harry got appendicitis...

-- Finwitch