DD and the Dursleys

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 158014

Phoenixgod2000:

"Something just occurred to me. If Dumbledore could go the Dursleys 
in book 6 and use magic on them to take them to task and intimidate 
them slightly and not break the wards, why couldn't he have done the 
same in Harry's younger years? Is he so busy he couldn't pop in 
once a month to have Tea with Petunia and check on the fricken' 
savior of his darn world? He could easily have insured that Harry 
was being well treated."

BAW:
Dumbledore's making frequent and regular visits to a Muggle household 
would have attracted Death Eater attention to that house.  They would 
have discovered who the boy the Dursleys were taking care of was 
and---well, you can guess the rest.
The Ancient Magic protects Harry from Voldemort, but not from his 
minions.

However badly Harry was treated at the Dursley's, he's still alive.  
Which is considerably better than the alternative.  This is probably 
the only thing that kept DD from turning them into frogs.