Harry at the Dursleys

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Pippin:

>  In fact, since Lily gave up her life,  and with it the  love and 
the 
home she could have given to her son in order to protect him, 
you could say that Dumbledore  honored her choice by taking 
Harry to the Dursleys.<<

Lupinlore 
> Pardon me?  I'm afraid I don't see this reasoning at all.

Pippin:
James instructed Lily to "Take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run!  I'll 
hold him off." Clearly he had some means of escape in mind. 
But Harry was in his cot when Lily died (per the website), so she 
wasn't fleeing the house with him when she died. Knowing that 
Voldemort would never stop hunting Harry, she  chose to give up 
her life,  and the love and the home she could have made for 
him, in order to give him the blood protection. Since this is 
ancient magic, it is something she could have known about. 
Dumbledore understood what she had done, and honored her 
sacrifice by taking Harry to live with the Dursleys. 

Of course you could read it otherwise. But I think it is JKR's 
purpose at this point in the story to allow us multiple 
interpretations, and force us to ask, What is goodness? What 
sort of sacrifice could be so powerful? rather than spoon feeding 
us the answers.


Pippin