Harry's first time in Dumbledore's office

[saraquel_omphale]

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Jen wrote:
>Like Snape
>telling Bellatrix he wondered whether Harry was the new Dark Lord,
>and how he looked for signs when Harry first appeared at Hogwarts.
>Reading COS the first time, I didn't pay much attention to students
>thinking Harry was Heir of Slytherin because it was so obvious he
>wasn't from the reader's perspective. But having Snape say that made
>me realize why magical people believed Harry could be evil. That
>scar cuts both ways, doesn't it?
>
>And even Dumbledore was looking for signs of Harry's allegiance from
>the moment Harry arrived, wondering if his encounter with LV had
>changed him in some fundamental way. 

Saraquel:
IMO, this also provides us with a reason why DD might have chosen 
the Dursleys, over and above the blood charm protection.  DD could 
not have known what the outcome of the encounter with Voldemort 
meant for Harry, imediately after the event, so he had to choose 
something which would suit all eventualities - good or bad. If DD 
knew the attitude of the Dursleys towards magic, which I think he 
probably did, whether or not you go along with the theroy that 
Petunia is actually a witch who decided not to go to Hogwarts, then 
he was putting Harry in a place where his magical abilities would be 
squashed and definitely not be encouraged early in his life.  He had 
seen with Riddle what the early discovery of power had done to him.  

In a magical family, there was more of a danger that if Harry did 
turn out to be the next evil overlord, his exposure to magic at an 
early age, might have led him into trouble.

Saraquel