Harry left at the Dursleys (Was Re: Plot in OotP)

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Snow:
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It is never the easy road that makes you strong but the hard one. 
Where is the protection
it is their life
their
choice
such maybe 
the Dumbledore theory! Grow up hard. Everything didn't come to Harry 
on a silver spoon with the Dursleys
in fact far from it. Was
Harry 
protected
No
But if Harry would have been allowed the
privileges of growing up in the world he was born to
what might
he 
have been
another Tom Riddle or a Malfoy?

> snip.
 
Alla:
 Sorry, but big NO again. The only thing I was arguing is the 
> necessity for Dumbledore to choose lesser evil from two - for 
Harry to be dead or alive but abused.
 
If you are arguing that Dumbledore put Harry with Dursleys for the 
reason of " not spoiling him" and teaching him some life lesson, 
such Dumbledore gets ZERO sympathy from me. Abuse is NOT a life 
lesson, which needs to be given to a child and I would argue that 
child SHOULD be protected from such lessons if it is possible at all.
 
The only justification for Dumbledore in mind would be that he did 
not want to see Harry dead.
 
 Some would argue that it is better to risk Harry's physical 
survival by putting him with loving family of powerful wizards than 
to leave him with Dursleys and I see their argument as quite strong 
too.

 
Potioncat:
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I agree with Alla. The safest place for Harry was with the Dursleys 
and DD had little control over what happened there.  I don't think  
he  had any idea how bad it was until Harry came to Hogwarts.  And 
even then, I don't think he knew how really bad it was.
 
> Alla:
 I think he knew how bad it was (I watched you more closely than 
you  knew, remember?) and I want to slap him for not interfering, 
but if the place was indeed the SAFEST, then I can forgive him.