Why not BRIBE the Dursleys, for heavens sake?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 123057


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kjirstem" 
<stonehenge.orders at v...> wrote:
> 
> lupinlore wrote:
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> > Why did he not simply BRIBE the Dursleys?  
> 
> kjirstem wrote:
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> Seems to me that paying the Dursley's to treat Harry better is 
pretty close to paying them to take him into their house.  To me it 
seems likely that bribery would negate the blood protection charm 
that allowed Harry safety at the Dursley's house.  

Tonks now:

DD does not bribe the Dursley's because he is a wise man who is too 
good and too noble to do that sort of thing. Period.

Tonks_op