DD and Harry in Book VI. The Dursleys or the WW?

[phoenixgod2000]

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> vmonte responds:
> There is also something else that people are forgetting. Dumbledore
> placed Harry in Petunia's home because he felt he had no choice. He
> needed Petunia's blood protection, and he needed to keep Harry away
> from the WW until he was old enough to defend himself. I personally
> don't think that Harry would have been safe anywhere else. I think
> that Voldemort's defeat at GH created a kind of Harry "myth" (of 
epic
> proportions!). Harry became someone to be feared by the DEs, and
> respected by the rest of the WW. The fact that the WW did not see
> Harry for 11 years also helped with creating the Harry "mythology."

Kill Harry off.  No one knew what happened at GH so DD could have 
simply transfigured something into Dead!Harry and smuggled the real 
Harry out of England. He could have sent him to Mainland Europe or 
the US or some other magical center and given him to lightside 
wizards there. I'm sure DD knows a few wizarding families he trusts 
implicitly.  Based on the reactions of the two foreign champions 
Voldemort never made it off the island since Harry didn't seem like 
a very big deal to them so I doubt there are very many nonEnglish 
DEs.  Harry could have grown up without a big head or pressure and 
Dumbledore could have told him some things when he got a little 
older.  No blood protection and no dursleys. Hell, maybe even no 
voldemort since he wouldn't have Harry's blood to rebuild his body.  

If the Dursleys were the best that Dumbldore can do, then he 
suffered a failure of imagination, IMO. He's a wizard for merlins 
sake!

In the end I do think we're going to get only what we've gotten so 
far, that it was 'the only way' end of story.  Harry is going to 
plaster on his stiff upper lip and go forth to kick V's behind. I 
think JK is simply too wedded to her Cinderella begining for Harry 
to have used any other mechanism for his begining which means DD is 
forced to look bad.

My problem with that is Cinderella never included her godfather 
falling through the veil of death as an example of 'real' senseless 
tragedy.

Phoenixgod2000