Who is Harry's guardian?

ornadv ornawn at 013.net
Fri Sep 15 20:04:24 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 158354

>Alla:
>And Dumbledore, unless he has psychic powers could **not** have 
>known that Sirius would be arrested, so he had no right to direct 
>Hagrid to take Harry from Sirius IMO.
<snip>
>But does Dumbledore has a right to disregard the express wishes of
>the parents, IF godparent and guardian are one and the same, which 
>as far as I understood is not necessary true?

Orna:
As far as DD knew at the time - Sirius was the secret keeper for the 
fidelius charm on the Potters house, and therefore could be the 
traitor. So even if he could not know Sirius would be arrested, and 
even if the Potters had named Sirius the guardian, godparent or 
whatever - he had the duty IMO to secure Harry – away from Sirius.  
And see later what the exact position is. Since later it seemed 
proved that Sirius was a mass-killer – it seemed settled. When in 
PoA things changed – Sirius wasn't an option for Harry to live with –
 he was on the run, in the OotP Sirius died. 

Perhaps I missed something -  did you think DD knew by then that PP 
was the traitor?

Orna









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