Hogwarts Teachers - Lockhart (was History at Hogwarts) (was Re: Wizard Persecution )

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 126273


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> Lupinlore now:
>  And a few 
> threats to some Muggles that richly deserve them doesn't 
> counterbalance turning a blind eye to ten years of child abuse.

GEO: Which would then go along with the rest of the wizarding 
world's opinion of treating those that they regard as weak as their 
inferiors. Sorry, but I really don't see him doing it especially 
when he is a critic of the pov of wizards towards their "inferiors".

And then there is the fact that the Dursleys were doing him a favor. 
They didn't have to take the boy in mind you and could have given 
him to the ophanage or the proper authorities. Threatening them 
especially when he still depended on them for Harry's protection 
wouldn't be a wise move.

> Lupinlore:

> Albus himself admitted he had numerous options for families to 
take 
> Harry.  "Many would have done so, more than gladly." 

GEO: And how would he have known that they might not be secret 
agents and sympathizers to Voldemort? So far he knew Voldemort had 
compromised Wizarding Society even going so far to have a traitor in 
the order during the first war not to mention that putting a child 
with a wizarding family would give Lucius Malfoy and surviving DEs 
less targets to choose from if they wanted to avenge their master.

 Or, if 
> anonymity is needed, he might have placed Harry with a suitably 
> screened Muggle family.  

GEO: We don't know the extent of Dumbledore's relations with the 
Muggle World, but considering that he has to use a squib as his 
liaison I don't think Dumbledore would have the resources to pick 
and choose a family for Harry even if he wanted to not to mention 
the lack of protection that a muggle family would have in regard to 
wizards.

My personal favorite at the moment is 
> Phoenixgod's contention that DD should have said Harry died at 
> Privet Drive and smuggled him out of the country with a fake name.

GEO: But you seem to not see the disadvantages to that. Dumbledore 
doesn't have that much influence outside the UK (why else would he 
have Charlie Weasley start recruiting foreign wizard for the Order) 
and if Harry was indeed found by the Death Eaters, it would be much 
more difficult for the Order or DD to come to the rescue not to 
mention that there might be DEs unaccounted for who also fled abroad.