Identifying with Muggles - The Dursley and 'Terrifying' Abuse

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158268


> Alla:
> And I completely agree with Steve, we don't know what was in that 
> note, I think it is very plausible via my general assesment of 
> Dumbledore character that the note may have had the instructions of 
> what to do if Dursleys do not want to take Harry in.
 

a_svirn:
Strangely enough according to *my* reading of Dumbledore's character 
I'd say that there weren't any such instructions in the letter. But 
that's one of those *JMO* kind of arguments. I've got a question, 
though. If he was willing to give them a way out, why didn't he simply 
ask? He already went to the trouble of coming to Privet Drive, so why 
did he dump Harry at Petunia's porch? If he asked and they refused, he 
could take him somewhere else, simple as that. So why complicate the 
matter?