Harry *wasn't* abandoned

[darrin_burnett]

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> 
> "Harry was very pleased he was concealed behind the bush,  as 
> Mrs. Figg had taken to asking him round for tea whenever she 
> met him in the street."
> 
> It seems to me if Harry had taken her up on it, she'd have told 
> him what was going on.  It's interesting that Harry never thinks of 
> this, and goes on being cross with Dumbledore for leaving him 
> without any contact with the WW even after he finds out that Mrs. 
> Figg is a Squib.
> 
> Pippin


I think that's a big leap, that Figg would have told him everything that was 
going on. We're not even sure she knew much past "keep an eye on Harry."

And considering that she had to play a role of being nasty to him whenever he 
was left there, why are we to assume she would change now? It took the 
Dementor attack to get her to drop her cover.

If he would have gone over there and she would have, say, started talking 
about Quidditch matches from the past, Harry never would have left, and the 
Dursleys would have smelled a rat.

Darrin