Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Yet another DD Dursley thread

[Paula "Elanor Pam"]

No: HPFGUIDX 121110

From: "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>

Lupinlore:
> My problem is his inaction for ten years
> thereafter.  Surely once it became apparent that the DE threat was
at least momentarily at bay there were more appropriate arrangements
> that could have been made.  Or given that he feared Voldemort's
> return (and I readily grant he had no way, as far as we know, of
> predicting when that might be) surely he had it within his power
> to force the Dursleys to behave more appropriately, not to mention
> he had it within his ability to provide more support for Harry from
> the Wizarding World.
>
> Valky:
> Here I partially agree with you, Lupinlore. But I am sure that DD
> *must* have had his reasons for needing to keep his distance.
> If it was essentially, just Dumbledore rationalising the possible
> cost of losing guaranteed protection for Harry weighed against one
> or two trivial matters in the Dursley household, and it may well
> have started that way.... and as the years passed each *minor*
> transgression by the Dursleys was weighed and measured to be not
> relative to the importance of Harry's life, before too long they
> added up and nine to ten years had passed.... by which time of
> course help was on it's way for Harry...... well if it was
> essentially this, it kind of makes sense. Dumbledore never intended
> to let it go on, but action just kept being rationalised away by the
> greater need for ensuring the boy stayed alive.

Elanor Pam:

...I wonder if Dumbledore simply didn't know Harry was having it tough at
the Dursley. You can argue that Ms. Figg would have told him, but, truth be
told, second-hand relation of this kind of fact isn't nearly as impacting :/
And we don't know how Ms. Figg would relate things to Dumbledore - it's
possible that she had strict orders to not make any kind of contact unless
it was an emergency (like the dementor attack), and, as a neighbour, didn't
actually know the extent of Harry's mistreatment (as I think she'd probably
warn Dumbledore if she knew the conditions Harry lived in - not so much
about sleeping in a cupboard, but the conditions of said cupboard). I
frankly don't believe Dumbledore knows everything that is happening, I think
he mainly goes with the flow, and if he knew Harry shared his socks with
spiders he'd send Petunia a letter while Vernon was at work.

Just my two cents.

Elanor Pam