Characters and Consequences? /What does Dumbledore wanted on the Tower?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 141728

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

Nor did 
> he even know, when he left Harry, that he himself could provide a 
loving home -- he says 
> that he never expected to feel drawn  to Harry and regarded it as a 
danger. So, from that 
> standpoint, he would be a hypocrite if he exacted  more of  the 
Dursleys than he thought 
> he could give himself.

Are you saying DD would have made Harry sleep in a closet?  Somehow I 
doubt it.  Nor, once again, does this make DD look very good at all.  
Nope, not much of an "epitome of goodness" there, just a meddling old 
manipulator.  And this, I think, and I believe Alla does as well, is 
precisely the type of hot water JKR is trying to get DD out of with 
her subtle rewriting of canon.


 > 
> Dumbledore has no rightful authority over the Dursleys, and going 
through the Muggle 
> authorities would not have been a good idea -- the DE's would 
surely have liked nothing 
> better than to see the Dursleys declared unfit parents and Harry 
taken away from them, 
> and we've seen they're not above interfering in Muggle affairs. 

DD has no rightful authority over Harry, either, and that doesn't 
stop him.  Having made the decision, he had a responsibility, if he 
did indeed understand what was happening at the Dursleys, to 
intervene -- very forcefully if necessary.  For him to hide behind 
the "I had no authority" excuse would truly be mealy-mouthed and rank 
hypocrisy.  Once again, exactly the type of thing that JKR is trying 
to rescue DD from, I (and I think Alla) believe.


Lupinlore