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

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 150199


> 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.)

Clark Kent: 
> But he did!  

Amiable Dorsai:  
But he didn't.  He took Harry to his closest relative, a situation
that was apparently legal under Wizarding law--at least, any challenge
to that action apparently failed.  On paper, it was a logical, even
commendable, thing to do. 

Dumbledore took Harry to his aunt, not some random couple with no
close relationship to the Potters.  Had he done that, I'm sure a
custody battle of some sort would have erupted. No matter who won it,
Harry would lose.

Look at it this way, the war, up to that point, was almost lost, the
Ministry was in disarray, and no one was in charge.  Dumbledore had a
golden moment of opportunity to take Harry and put him in a place he
might have ended up at anyway, had Lily and Petunia not been estranged.

Clark Kent:
  Think of what would've happened if Sirius had raised Harry instead
of rushing off to find Peter?  

Amiable Dorsai: 
My guess is that Bella and her merry men would have gone after Sirius,
rather than the Longbottoms. In Sirius' care, Harry would have had no
special protection.

<Snip a bunch of my objections to various wizard couples, and Clark
Kent's rebuttals>

My point was, Dumbledore was not omniscient, and he knew it.  He knew
there were threats out there, but he didn't who they were or where
they were--he said as much at the end of GoF.  *Any* wizard couple was
vulnerable--the Longbottoms, both Aurors, are proof of that.

Without the shield of Lily's blood, available only if Harry lives with
Petunia, Harry probably would not have made it to nursery school.

It's a devil's bargain--Dumbledore can't even do much to dissuade
Petunia from mistreating Harry.  Since the shield is contingent on her
acceptance of Harry into her home, all Petunia has to do is tell Harry
to leave.  Once he can no longer call the place where his mother's
blood dwells "home", he's toast.

The shield, so powerful against Voldemort and his Death Eaters, is as
fragile as a soap bubble to one Muggle woman.

Amiable Dorsai