Dumbledore & Dursleys-What DD Knew

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No: HPFGUIDX 123435


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Regardless of whether or not Harry has transcended the limitations 
> of his upbringing, it does not excuse the actions that put him in 
> the situation in the first place.

I agree that an action shouldn't be judged in retrospect, with the 
knowledge of actual outcome, but according to the knowledge the actor 
had at the time and the moral considerations on which he based his 
decision. 

> 
> 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.

None of us are in the specific danger that Harry was. The only 
explanation that is provided in canon is the one that DD gives - he 
put Harry with the Dursleys becuase it was the safest place he could 
make for him. Tortured and dead by the age of two, or alive and 
emotionally damaged by the age of eleven? That's the choice 
(*according to canon*) that DD faced - not an enviable place to find 
yourself in, by any means. 


Naama