Why not BRIBE the Dursleys, for heavens sake?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 123051


 Lupinlore:"If he doesn't want to use money, its hard to imagine he
could not use magic to deliver material advantages to the Dursleys."

Pippin:"But bribes have a way of growing, and Dumbledore would have
been looking at ten years of pay-offs. Not that he couldn't have
afforded it, and as Harry notes to himself, he didn't think the
Dursleys' objections to magic would extend to a pile of gold."

Indeed. Heck, as far as we know it was only gold that restrained the
Dursleys from further outrages in the first place; and we have to
consider that the protective spells might not work if the protector
is paid.	

Pippin:"But as I doubt the Dursleys could have restrained their greed
for long, the Dursleys lifestyle would have improved to the point
where the neighbours would have noticed, not to mention Inland Revenue."

A business owner can usually hide the source of money coming in.
Goodness knows it happens often enough on both sides of the ocean.

Jim Ferer