Phoenixgod's theory

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 125085



> 
> 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

I've been thinking about this one a lot, and I have to say I agree
with you Phoenixgod.  Primarily because it's impossible to take Lord
Comic Book and his Keystone Kops seriously as they have been written.
 Given Albus' supposed power, it's simply impossible to believe he
could not have protected Harry in this way.  Now that means that:

1) Albus is lying (I don't think so)
2) Albus has some reprehensible scheme to "toughen Harry up" (I don't
think so)
3) Albus bungled badly and needs to own up to that fact (ding, ding, ding)
4) Albus just didn't give a d**n (don't think so, but that speech at
the end of OOTP makes me wonder)

IMO the scene at the end of OOTP is just the tip of the iceberg of the
issues Albus needs to roll up his sleeves and address.  The man has
caused Harry an enormous amount of pain.  It's time he faced that fact.

Lupinlore