Innocent Alby?

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No: HPFGUIDX 122908


Lupinlore writes:

>Certainly Harry cannot trust Snape, and 
>DEFINITELY not Dumbledore, whose sins against Harry are so numerous 
>that they can't be numbered. (SNIP)

>By now DD is in a state of panic.  Not only has he singularly failed
>to provide an appropriate emotional support system for Harry, Harry 
is
>himself in clear danger.

I agree with Lupinlore and those other few not waving pompons for 
Dumbledore.  He seemed to have things pretty much together in the 
first few books, but after Crouch!Moody and Harry nearly being killed 
by Voldemort in PoA, he really seemed to be losing it.  And then the 
total stupidity in OoP of trying to keep Harry in the dark and 
basically accomplishing nothing.  My issues with DD go back much 
farther.  While reading CoS the other day, I was struck by Harry 
mentioning his "worst birthday ever" and that the Dursleys rarely 
even acknowledged his birthday.  (How would Harry even know when his 
birthday was?  I find it hard to believe the Dursleys would EVER have 
brought it up, or even bothered to remember in the first place... but 
I digress.)  My issue with DD is this:  He takes a baby, drops it on 
the doorstep of the "worst sort of Muggles imaginable" and never 
bothers to check on the child again, except to have Arabella Figg 
(who is FAR from the kindly grandmother sort, as Harry hated every 
minute he spent at her house, also) keep an eye on him from afar.  
Why in the heck didn't DD have someone drop in once in awhile and 
keep the Dursleys in line?  Or at least keep them from starving him.  
They wouldn't have to reveal that they were wizards, a simple, "I 
used to be a friend of your parents and like to drop by now and again 
to BUY YOU A DECENT SET OF CLOTHES" would suffice.  And what about 
Lupin?  The son of his best friend gets sent away to live with nasty 
Muggles and he never once in ten years tries to contact the boy?  
Fine, perhaps DD didn't fully trust Lupin to reveal where Harry was, 
but if I were Lupin I would have bloody well tried to convince DD and 
at least maybe write to the child once in awhile.  Maybe a birthday 
card??  I just find it revolting to think that good and kindly 
Dumbledore allowed Harry to be raised in an environment that was not 
only devoid of the magic he had inherited, but also devoid of 
kindness, compassion, and love.  How can Harry, growing up now, not 
feel resentment for that?  Sending Harry back to the Dursleys instead 
of letting him stay at Grimmauld Place with Sirius was the icing on 
that little cake.  And people wonder why Harry had a bit of anger 
going in OoP.

Nicky Joe