Dumbledore & Dursleys-What DD Knew

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Phoenixgod:
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Dumbledore abandoned Harry to people that none of us would want to 
know or live with. That is wrong regardless of Harry's mental 
resilience.

Alla: Exactly.

 
Snow:
What do you want to see from Dumbledore, the man has already cried 
(only time) as a product of what he has been made to put Harry 
through. Dumbledore has already apologized for what he was made to 
do. 

Phoenixgod: 
What do I want to see from DD? I want to see him pay restitution for
making decisions in his infinite wisdom that would have Harry's 
parents rolling in their graves.
 
I want him to take a time turner and go back to make a better 
decision now that he knows what Harry is going to go through. 
 
I want him to take away the memories of a wasted childhood. 
 
I want him to acknowledge that what he did wasn't a *tough* 
decision, it was a *wrong* decision.  
 
The great and wonderful DD crying isn't enough.
 
But DD is never going to do any of those things because he can't. So
if were HP I wouldn't want to see anything from DD. Not ever again.


Alla:

Excellent rant, Phoenixgod, absolutely excellent. That is exactly 
what I think of Dumbledore on my bad days. On my good days I am 
inclined to be a bit more forgiving, IF I imagine that Dumbledore 
indeed tried to do something for Harry, but was not able to without 
endangering his physical safety.


By the way, I was thinking about Susan's desire to find out whether 
Dumbledore EVER checked on Harry himself and I am afraid that he is 
not. Consider this quote, when Dumbledore talks to Harry in 
the "Lost Prophecy" : " My naswer is that my priority was to keep 
you alive . You were in more danger than perhaps anyone but myself 
realised. Voldemort had been vanquished hours before, but his 
supporters - and many of them are almost as terrible as he - were 
still at large, angry, desperate and violent. And I had to make my 
decision too with regards to years ahead" OOP, p.834.

SO, Dumbledore had to think about Harry's physical safety at THAT 
moment, FINE, I understand that. But it seems to me that in the 
years ahead he did not bother to check not only on how Dursleys 
treated Harry, but MAYBE, just maybe the situation was NOT as 
dangerous anymore and maybe Harry can even be removed from Dursleys. 
I mean most likely not, of course, but how about he would check 
first?

It seems to me that Dumbledore stuck with his original decision 
without checking that maybe facts have changed.


Just my opinion,

Alla