Innocent Alby?

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No: HPFGUIDX 122975



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<xcpublishing at y...> wrote:

> 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.  

I'm sorry but I totally disagree. There is one, and only one place in
the world where Harry is safe from LV. Where he cannot be killed even
as a small child no matter if LV comes back or not. That one place
happens to be the place where they swore when they took him 'to stamp
out that dangerous nonsense' (PS p. 31 paperback edition). Do you
really think DD and his parents friends should have endagered his LIFE
for a bit of comfort? I think they made exactly the right decision to
wait until he was old enough to become part of the WW, and be able to
attend Hogwarts. Even if the Dursleys decided to rather kick him out
than let him go to that school, Hogwarts would have offered some
protection. Not as good as the Dursley' but the next best thing. Only
available after he turned eleven. 

Picture this:
I'm was a friend of your dad.
You knew my dad? What was he like, what was his job, what school did
he get to? From where did you know each other? How did he meet my mum?
 (fill in all other questions a child want to know about his parents). 

Does anyone really expect that the Dursley's would have let that happen? 

Gerry