Dumbledore's Magnaminity

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 143022

 
> 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.
>
Apparently they didn't receive exploding letters when they decided to 
wash their hands of the child. No did his relative life hang upon 
their decision. 

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