Privet Drive alternatives - any ideas?

[koinonia02]

No: HPFGUIDX 124559


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Alla - Message 124552


> If we are to play alternatives list, I LOVE the option of sweeping 
> Harry away to another country. Surely, Dumbledore has plenty of 
> acquiantances around the world, who could take Harry in.

~snip~

> He IS after all the only one whom Voldie fears. I think it is 
> possible that he could have protected Harry just as strongly as 
>blood protection does.


"K":

But other aquaintances and Dumbledore don't offer the best 
protection for Harry. Both of these issues are addressed by 
Dumbledore.
_____________________________________________________________________

~You had suffered. I knew you would when I left you on your aunt and 
uncle's doortstep. I knew I was condemning you to ten dark and 
difficult years."

He paused. Harry said nothing.

"You might ask -- and with good reason -- why it had to be so. 
***Why could some Wizarding family not have taken you in?*** Many 
would have done so more than gladly, would have been honored and 
delighted to raise you as a son.

"My answer is that ***my priority was to keep you alive.*** You were 
in more danger than perhaps anyone but myself realized. Voldemort 
had been vanquished hours before, but his supporters -- and many of 
them are almost as terrible as he -- were still at large, angry, 
desperate, and violent. And I had to make my decision too ***with 
regard to the years ahead.*** Did I believe that Voldemort was gone 
forever? No. I knew not whether it would be ten, twenty, or fifty 
years before he returned, but I was sure he would do so, and I was 
sure too, knowing him as I have done, that ***he would not rest 
until he killed you.***

"I knew that ***Voldemort's knowledge of magic is perhaps more 
extensive than any wizard alive.*** I knew that ***even my most 
complex and powerful protective spells and charms were unlikly to be 
invincible if he ever returned to full power.***

"But I knew too ***where Voldemort was weak.*** And so I made my 
decision. You would be protected by an ancient magic of which he 
knows, which he despises, and which ***he has always, therefore, 
underestimated*** -- to his cost. I am speaking, of course, of the 
fact that your mother died to save you. She gave you a ***lingering 
protection he never expected,*** a protection that flows in your 
veins to this day. I put my trust, therefore, in your mother's 
blood. I delivered you to her sister, her only remaining relative."

~snip~

"Your mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood ***the strongest 
shield I could give you."***

"I still don't --"

"While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood 
dwells, ***there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort.*** He 
shed her blood, but it lives on in your and her sisters. Her blood 
became ***your refuge.*** You need return there only once a year, 
but as long as you can still call it home, ***there he cannot hurt 
you.***

oop-ch 37-pgs 835-836-us
***my emphasis***
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Does JKR not answer this question?

~"You might ask -- and with good reason -- why it had to be so." 


It's all in the book. The problem isn't that she didn't answer it 
but that it's not the answer some people want. Well, let me also say 
we don't know all there is to know just yet but for now we are told 
why Harry had to be left with Petunia.


 
 Alla: 
> See, I cannot stop thinking that nowhere in the books Dumbledore 
>says that blood protection was THE ONLY option available to him, 
>just the one "he put his trust in". 


"K":

It wasn't the only option but according to Dumbledore it was the 
best. Isn't that what we all want for Harry? The best?

You know, I believe we are just suppose to know that Harry was left 
with an abusive family but yet because of the special person he is 
(his love, not being the prophecy boy) he has survived. He has made 
better choices than Tom Riddle ever did. He has made better choices 
than Petunia and Vernon. He is a great kid. IMO, to dwell constantly 
on how terrible Dumbledore is takes our eyes off of the true evil in 
the books, which is Voldemort and his DE's and what they stand for. 

"K"