Old, old problem.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150996

Carol:
> < HUGE SNIP of the whole post basically>
> > Placement with the Dursleys is the first step in this training, 
> IMO.
> < HUGE SNIP>

Alla:
> Oh, I so hope not.
*(snip)*
> I believe DD who says in HBP that he hoped that Dursleys would 
treat 
> him as a son. I think DD was truly afraid that Dursleys wil throw 
> Harry out and then nullifying blood protection.
> 
> But I don't see Dumbledore who knew what torments Harry would face 
> at Dursleys and still would choose to leave him there, I just don't 
> see it at all. IMO of course.

Ceridwen:
At the time when Harry was taken to the Dursleys', it seemed to me 
that Dumbledore had some faith that the Dursleys would treat Harry 
like another son.  They had a child just a bit older, if things had 
gone like one would expect, Harry and Dudley would have grown up like 
brothers, been friends as well as enemies, shared a room at first and 
later, toys and friends.  When SS/PS shows the Dursleys at first, 
then brings Harry literally to their doorstep, this is what I'd 
imagined.  I was unpleasantly surprised by the way Harry was shown to 
be treated after that.

But, once Dumbledore knew, and he probably knew at least a little of 
what went on (didn't Harry stay with Mrs Figg when the Dursleys took 
Dudley fun places?  She must have mentioned a pattern, and even the 
way Petunia talked about her 'incorrigible' nephew), there was still 
the issue of the blood protection.  It is impossible to remove that 
protection from the reason why Harry had to stay.  Everyone wonders 
what happened during those missing 24 hours: With the deeper 
information we have for intricate spells like LV's resurrection, I am 
almost certain that Dumbledore spent the day finding out what he 
could about the events at GH, then researching ancient blood spells, 
and formulating one or more that would enhance the natural protection 
provided by Lily's sacrifice.  I am also almost certain that 
Dumbledore would have had to create the proper spells taking Lily's 
blood properties into account to make these protections compatible 
with Petunia's blood (which lacks full wizarding genes, if she has 
any recessive genes to pass on at all, maybe an Rh sort of thing), 
and he would have had to laterally create the spells since Lily's 
protection had never been done before so no known enhancements could 
exist.

With this/these intricate spell(s) in place, Harry is protected, as 
Carol mentioned, from even the Dursleys' attempts to physically harm 
him.  My speculation of where Harry was during that time, was at 
either Hogwarts because of the protections, or at another secure 
location such as wherever OotP headquarters were then.  And I am 
almost certain that Dumbledore would have been in the same location 
working on his spells.  A lot of 'almosts', but there is no canon to 
back this up, it is all speculation.

*IF* I am right, then the protections are firmly entrenched until 
Harry reaches his majority.  He cannot suffer physical harm there, so 
he is safe at least from death.  He might as well stay under the 
distant eye of DD, Mrs Figg, and perhaps other Order members.  The 
blood protection, in my opinion, cannot be discounted when discussing 
Harry's placement.

Ceridwen.