Why wasn't Harry sent to either a lightsided wizarding family or a muggle family?

Clark Kent clark.kentjr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 20:06:10 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 150138

Jutika:
> IMO, the "blood wards" you are talking about, protects Harry only 
> from Voldemort.
> 
> I mean hypothetically, Harry could still fall off his broom from 
> a great height and die. The blood ward cannot protect him under 
> such circumstances.
>
> As far as living with the Dursleys' is concerned, that was the 
> only way Dumbledore could assure that Lily's sacrifice would act 
> as his protection. If Petunia would have refused to take Harry in, 
> the charm wouldn't have been sealed, leaving Harry unprotected.


John:
But what protection did the blood wards really give?  If it can't 
protect him from the darkest of creatures (Dementors) why would it 
be able to protect him from Voldemort?

Harry would've defeated Quirrel/LV in PS and in OoTP whether he 
lived with the Dursleys or not.  The blood wards should've stopped 
Voldemort from possessing him in the first place if they worked 
against him, which either points to the wards now being completely 
useless (Or in other words, why is he still with the Dursleys after 
GoF?) or them NEVER having worked against him, which seems to be the 
case after the DoM incident.  Harry's love for others was what drove 
off Voldemort from possessing him and IMO is what prevented Quirrel 
from touching him, not the blood wards.











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