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

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 150113

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "John" <clark.kentjr at ...> wrote:

> 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? 

Amiable Dorsai:
Aside from the fact that Dumbledore isn't King of the Wizards, and
can't just decide to kidnap Harry and place him anywhere he wants?
(Petunia, after all, is Harry closest living relative,  On paper, at
least, she's the logical one to give Harry shelter.)

The Longbottoms, good choice!  They're Aurors.  No Death Eaters are
going to mess with them!

Of course, I'm sure it would have been nicer for Harry at the
Weasleys' home, after all, one of his parents' old friends, Wormtail,
was soon to be living with the Weasleys too. Surely Peter would never
sell out the son of the Potters.

Hey, I've got it, why not send him to live with the Crouches?  Old
Barty Crouch is a ruthless foe of the Death Eaters, he'll have no
trouble protecting Harry!

As for Sirius, well, the Potters were Dumbledore's comrades-in-arms. 
Dark lords, blood wards, and Prophecies aside, it's possible that
Dumbledore might have felt he owed it to them to keep their son out
of the hands of their betrayer, a man who had, so far as anyone knew,
conspired to kill him.

John:
> Tell the world on Oct 31, 1981 that Harry defeated Voldemort, but
> that he died in the process.

Amiable Dorsai:
Bit of a problem there--the Ministry apparently never recovered
Voldy's wand--at least, he had it later on in Little Hangleton.  So
someone must have taken it. Voldemort himself being a little shy on
hands at that point, it must have been some else.  Likely that person
would have noticed a squalling baby.  Likely that person was a Death
Eater.

Who were we keeping Harry's survival a secret from?

Amiable Dorsai