Acceptable Abuses?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 96251

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Or maybe he was telling, for once, the simple truth. Privet Drive 
> was the only place where Harry would be safe. It's the bizarre 
> nature of Harry's enemy that keeps us from appreciating the 
> situation Dumbledore was in. One of my own children was born 
> extremely premature, a life-threatening condition  for which the 
> only treatments were isolating, hazardous,  painful and likely to 
> leave emotional scars. 
> 
> The fact that I wasn't going to be the one living in pain or dying 
> peacefully was irrelevant--I still had to make the choice for my 
> child. All anyone can do in such a situation is choose the way 
> you hope someone would choose for you. I think that's what 
> Dumbledore did.
> 
> Sirius knew where Harry was going, (at least, he knew where to 
> find him twelve years later), and he agreed, however reluctantly. 
> And if he made the decision distraught, and guilt-stricken and 
> under pressure from authority, well, that's the way it usually is 
> when your child's life is at stake.
> 
> If Harry had  to be left with  the Dursleys to save him from 
cancer, 
> rather than Voldemort, would we be searching for ulterior 
> motives?
> 
> Pippin


Let's pretend for the sake of discussion that I believe 
Dumbledore. :o) Dursleys were the safest place for Harry. He could 
not go anywhere else.

It still begs the question though. Should we believe the other parts 
of Dumbledore's little speech at the end of OoP. Should we believe 
that Dumbledore watched Harry closer that he would ever imagine?

If yes, he surely would have notice that Harry was going through 
really tough times with his relatives.


My question would be why (if Dumbledore cared as much as he 
proclaimed) he never interfered and at least told Dursleys to treat 
Harry more decently?

It is not like he could not interfere. The Order told Dursleys off at 
the end of OoP, after all. Why exactly they did not so it  much 
earlier?

Beyond plot reasons, are there any others? 

Alla