Sirius, Sirus, and more Sirius (was: Petunia/Headmaster/LVatHogwarts/Mo...)

[pippin_999]

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> a_svirn:
 Dumledore knew that it wasn't a final victory, but there 
> wasn't any immediate danger for Harry.
>

Pippin:
That's where we see things differently. Yes, the danger of a 
Voldemortist coup would be in abeyance until Voldemort 
recovered his body and could command his DE's again. 
Harry would not wake up one day to find dragons circling 
Trafalgar Square or giants invading Surrey.

But--

 Dumbledore wasn't only trying to save Harry from living in 
a world dominated by Voldemort. He was trying to save Harry
from being murdered.  The number of potential Harry-
killers actually increased with Voldemort's loss of power, 
since besides being in danger from Voldemort himself, Harry was 
now  in danger from suicidal fanatic Death Eaters seeking 
vengeance on their  master's behalf. Voldemort's wand must
have been missing from the scene and that would mean at
least one of his faithful was at large and knew what had
happened. 

Dumbledore  could also reasonably expect that 
Voldemort himself  was still capable of 
finding ways to kill Harry and still motivated to do so. 

But Dumbledore couldn't have explained  that without explaining 
about horcruxes or Voldemort's interpretation of the prophecy.  
He did not want Voldemort to realize how much he knew, so he 
couldn't alert anyone  to the real extent of the danger. 

Certainly Dumbledore was in no position to explain all this to 
anyone in the Order when Dumbledore did not yet know which 
Order member was the spy. Yet they could hardly have been 
expected to defend Harry adequately without knowing it. 
Only Petunia could do that.

Anyway, things wouldn't have looked very good for Sirius even
before  the attack on the Muggles. James and Lily had trusted 
him above all others, Dumbledore believed he had been their
secret-keeper, and James and Lily were *dead*. Even if Dumbledore 
knew that Sirius had been chosen as Harry's guardian, it would've 
been reckless to hand Harry over to him under  the circumstances. 

Pippin