Why not BRIBE the Dursleys, for heavens sake?

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I think it will turn out that Dumbledore has been bribing the Dursleys
from day one and that is why they took baby Harry into their home.
Think about it, Petunia doesn't work and Vernon is dumb as dirt, but
somehow he makes enough money to have a very nice house and car and
buys his son lots of expensive gifts.  I don't think Vernon got all
that money selling drills, he's not smart enough to have a job that
good. They clearly hate Harry, especially Vernon, and treat him poorly
but with the exception of a scene in book 2 they don't actually enter
into the territory of child abuse, without that money from Dumbledore
I think they would.   

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