Sirius, Sirus, and more Sirius/ Blood protection

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 158474

> Alla:
> 
> The problem  for me is that his actions are also about Sirius, no 
> matter what IMO, even if he indeed was thinking primarily about 
> blood protection and I have no problem believing that he indeed 
> **was** thinking primarily about blood protection.  The problem 
for  me is **why** he took it upon himself to decide that blood 
> protection over the protection of love (I mean we do agree that 
> Sirius loved Harry, right? More that Dursleys did?) would be the 
> safest thing for Harry?
> (snip)
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I think he should have taken Harry with him 
and left, going after Peter was certainly not wise ( understandable, 
but not wise), but Dumbledore's behaviour is questionable for me too.
> 


Tonks:
We don't know what went on behind the scenes. We know that some time 
elapsed and we have all speculated as to what happened and why. 
Whatever it was, I think that DD would know to do the correct thing. 
After all he is the wisest and most powerful of them all.  He would 
understand things about the blood protection that most others would 
not.  

This was an unusual situation.  No one had ever survived an AK 
before.  AFAWK, There was never a prophesy like this one before.  
This little baby was the hope of the world.  The whole world, WW and 
MW was on his shoulders.  And DD is the head of the highest court in 
the WW.  He **is** the one to make a decision of this magnitude.  
For all we know the whole court could have met, or the inner core if 
there is one.  

Harry is not just a baby with a Godfather in the wings.  Harry is 
the "chosen one".  He is the hope of the world. It was not about 
taking him from Sirius; it was about saving the world.  And if DD 
says that putting him with the Dursleys was the only way to keep 
Harry safe to grow up whole and pure, then I believe him. It was the 
*only* way. (And by extension, if JKR says, since it is the way she 
wrote it, that Harry at the Dursleys was the only way, I believe her 
too.)

Bottom line: DD is the Head Mugwamp, and it falls to him to make 
these decissions, perhaps with counsel from the inner circle, 
perhaps without. It is not up to the Head of the MoM. The Wizengamot 
has a higher purpose and as the head of it, DD is IMO the head of 
all of the most important things in the WW. Until Scrimgeour, most 
of the Ministers of Magic have looked to DD for advise and 
counsel.  .
 
Tonks_op