Dumbledore the Counselor (was: Dumbledore the General)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 124406



> Pippin:
> Then it would also have been morally wrong to leave Harry in the 
> WW, where he would have been abused by fame and fortune. If 
> you don't think so, consider the fate of so many child movie stars 
> of the thirties and forties, compared to the way famous children 
> are sheltered today. There's a reason that Chelsea Clinton and 
> the English princes weren't in the news much when they were 
> minors.

Pippin, if Harry can survive his childhood with a strong moral 
background, then he could have survived fame and fortune with strong 
morals as well. I agree that there would have been a lot of pressure 
on him but I am sure that any parents that were selected by Harry 
would have shown some judgement, taught him restraint and kept a lid 
on his spending. That's what good parents do, even the parents of 
child stars. Do you really think that Harry would have grown up 
spoiled if he had been raised by a good pureblooded family like the 
Weasleys or the Boneses? I doubt it.

Consider something else. What if Harry had decided to throw himself 
into his role as the Boy Who Lived and used his fame and fortune to 
bad ends once he discovered that he had both in the wizarding world? 
I can easily envision a scenario where Harry finds out he has wealth 
and fame from Hagrid and decides to go overboard with both as a 
reaction against his years of abuse.  DD would have created the 
problem he was trying to stop.

I personally think that the best thing DD could have done would have 
been to fake Harry's death and hide him somewhere else, like France 
or America, as just another war orphan.  He could have played kindly 
old Grampy Albus until Harry was old enough to go to Hogwarts and be 
revealed to the world again.

phoenixgod2000