Dumbledore's Magnaminity

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 143014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:

a_svirn:
> The Dursleys are muggles. 
> They don't want to have anything to do with magic.
> Dumbledore dumped Harry at their doorstep, thus meddling with their 
> life.
> 
> They took Harry and by doing so saved his skin. If anything 
> Dumbledore should be damn well grateful for that.

Geoff:
But you have gone on about this point several times. The plain fact is 
that they could have refused to take Harry and, at any time during 
those years, they could have thrown in the towel and put him into care.

I can remember a case some years ago involving one of the young people 
in our church group who was orphaned. In a similar scenario to Harry's, 
an aunt and uncle took him in - very unwillingly - and did just that 
after a year or so. They washed their hands of a family relative.