Dumbledore the Counselor (was: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124363


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> 
> <SNIP?>
> 
> As to Harry's general emotional state, Dumbledore showed himself 
> concerned with this in the very first chapter of the very first book 
> when he explains why Harry needs to be left with the Dursleys.
> 
> "Exactly," said Dumbledore, looking very seriously over the top of 
> his half-moon glasses.  "It would be enough to turn any boy's head.  
> Famous before he can walk and talk!  Famous for something he won't 
> even remember!  Can't you see how much better off he'll be, growing 
> up away from all that until he's ready to take it?"  (SS paperback 
> p.13)
> 
> Skip forward ten years and Harry is well grounded enough, sure enough 
> of himself, to argue with the Sorting Hat and get himself into 
> Gryffindor.  Whether he would have wound up there without arguing or 
> not, it shows a great strength of character, and a healthy sense of 
> self-worth, to argue with a magical item you don't fully understand 
> to make sure you're not stuck where you don't want to go.  Harry's 
> rejection of Malfoy and acceptence of Ron speaks to a similar 
> strength of character.  So though the Dursleys provided a less than 
> ideal home, Dumbledore's instinct to keep Harry unspoiled seems to 
> pay off.
> 
 
If this was in ANY WAY a part of Dumbledore's reasoning in leaving
Harry at the Dursleys and not intervening to make things better then
Dumbledore is a cold-blooded accessory to child-abuse, nothing more
and nothing less.

The Dursleys were NOT "less than ideal," they were child abusers and
nothing more than an unmitigated disaster.  It's for that that
Dumbledore badly deserves to suffer consequences.


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