Harry's guardianship (was re: Wands and broomsticks)

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 56364

--- Faith wrote:
> I'm sure that Lily and James sat down and discussed where they'd want
> Harry to go, if anything happened to them. I can't imagine them not 
> wanting Black. 
> Now I know he was a traitor and all that, but they didn't know that at
> the time. I also can't imagine them ever agreeing that Harry should go
to
> the Dursley's. They Potters obviously had a large circle of close
friends,
> surely there was someone more capable of taking care of the baby.Heck,
why
> couldn't Arebella have raised him, that way he would have grown up
knowing 
> who he and his family was. 

I'm sure that Lily and James would have wanted Harry to go anywhere else
but the Dursleys, but unfortunately they weren't alive to make that
determination by this point.  They appointed Sirius Harry's guardian, but
since Sirius was, ah, incapacitated, there wouldn't then be a general
cattle call of "hey, who wants Harry?"  If no secondary guardian is
appointed, then the blood relatives would be the next line.  (This is
especially suited to Dumbledore's requirements, of course, if his "ancient
magic" requires the blood link, as speculated.)  If there are no relatives
to be found, THEN family friends may be asked to take the child in instead
of sending him to an orphanage, but they wouldn't get priority over
family.



Andrea

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