[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 158537

> Leah:
> Lily's loving sacrifice had set up a deep protection for
> Harry, which would keep him safe provided he could call home the
> place where his mother's blood dwelt.  For that to happen, Petunia's
> home has to be Harry's home.

Random832:
But it is not in any way certain that he will be harmed if not placed
with the Dursleys.

And why not take Petunia away to live somewhere else? Kill off Vernon
"for the greater good".

> It's way beyond legalities.
Random832:

The _fact_ that the protection depends on a particular choice of
placement may be "beyond legalities", but Dumbledore does NOT have an
absolute right to place Harry under that protection if it requires
violating his parents' will.

> Leah:
> Sirius was obeying DD's instructions, however reluctantly.

Random832:
And then, later, DD completely screwed him. Sirius made a wrong
decision. A wrong decision which was to be the first of several that
night.

> Leah:
> ...   None of those homes  would  have
> given him the protection conferred on him by Petunia.

Random832:
None of which means he would not have otherwise been safe. Any of
those other places, he would also not have been abused.

Maybe it made sense to place him with the Dursleys for a few years,
when there were still many DE's at large and likely to want to take
revenge. But once that danger had passed, why not place him with
someone who would love him?

Which brings us to Dumbledore's _other_ motive, which you so
conveniently forget: to keep Harry ignorant of the WW. This goal is
stated, IIRC, _before_ we even hear of blood protections.

> Leah:
> Sirius might have been the perfect
> substitute parent, and it still wouldn't have given Harry the
> protection Lily had left for him.

Random832:
And it's not like he would have been completely undefended elsewhere.
You have to compare the blood protection to what protection he would
have received living with any of the others, _not_ to "no protection
at all".

The blood protection is not perfect. It did not protect him from
whatever "experience" it was that "taught him to stay well out of
Vernon's reach". It did not protect him from being portkeyed away and
having his arm sliced open by the very man who condemned his parents
to death. It has not protected him from Voldemort personally at all
since the end of fourth year. Surely he could be better protected at
Grimmauld Place once the blood protection was out of the equation.

-- 
Random832