Why wasnt Harry sent to either a lightsided wizarding family or a muggle family?

John clark.kentjr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 06:37:43 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 150108

Dumbledore's reasoning for sending him to the Dursleys was that he
wanted Harry to live a normal life and not be blinded by the fame, but
can that really be the case?  The only people who knew about Harry's
scar were Dumbledore, Minerva, Hagrid, and possibly Sirius (on a side
note, shouldn't Harry have been with Sirius, seeing as he WAS the
boy's Godfather... and who was the Godmother?).  So who was the idiot
that apparently gave a sketch of Harry to the entire wizarding world
so they could easily identify him?

Why not simply put him with a light or neutral sided family (Weasleys,
Boneses, Abbotts, Longbottoms, Diggories, Patils, Lovegoods, Changs,
etc. etc. etc.) and have him go to school with knowledge of the world he was going to be inhabiting, instead of a frightened boy with little
social skills and a hero complex?  

Tell the world on Oct 31, 1981 that Harry defeated Voldemort, but that
he died in the process.  Keep his first name as Harry, and only tell
him his real name once he's old enough (10 or 11) to know to keep that
information to himself, but change his last name to whatever family he
was living in and explain that he was orphaned during the war, I'm
sure Harry's parents weren't the only ones killed by Voldemort's
forces.  Raise him as a normal child, without the abuse he was going
through at the Dursleys.

I know what will be said, "What about the blood wards?"  Blood wards
didn't stop the Basilisk, blood wards didn't stop the Peter Pettigrew,
blood wards didn't stop the dementors, or Dobby who could've easily
been sent by the Malfoys to kill him, or anybody else for that matter. (Why would he need Order guards if the blood wards were so powerful? If Voldemort attacked I don't think Fletcher would be able to stop him.)  The only person it seems to hurt is Voldemort, but then again how do we know that?  The explanation in PS and OoTP for why Voldemort couldn't touch/inhabit him was that he was so full of love and Voldemort couldn't handle it...surely Harry would have more love in his heart if he was with a loving family as opposed to a family where he was hated simply for being born.

John










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