DD and Harry in Book VI. The Dursleys or the WW?

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 123965



> Phoenixgod2000 wrote:
> If the Dursleys were the best that Dumbldore can do, then he
> suffered a failure of imagination, IMO. He's a wizard for merlins
> sake!
<snip>

> vmonte responds:
> Unless it was Snape who swayed Dumbledore into sending Harry to the 
> Dursleys. <funny bit of Snape arguments snipped>

I don't think that Snape at this point has much sway on Dumbledore. 
He's only been teaching for 1-2 years, he's very young, his grudge 
against James is probably still nice and hot. I don't think DD is 
going to be swayed by, of all people, Snape at this point. He 
overrides all of McG's arguments without much thought. 

Come to think of it, when would Snape have has time to persuade 
anyone of anything anyhow? It was a Monday night that Voldemort 
showed up in Godric's hollow. Persumably, Snape was busy teaching all 
of Tuesday anyhow. (I wonder how McG managed to get away for a day). 
And DD appears to have come up with the orders to Hagrid very 
quickly - Hagrid showed up at GH before the muggles did, having had 
time to go get a motorbike off Sirius first. DD seems to have arrived 
at the decision to place Harry with the Dursleys very very quickly. 

Northsouth