In defense of DD WAS musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 158651

First it seems to me that people blame DD for the actions of 
others.  DD is not responsible for the choices of Vernon, for 
example.  DD did what he needed to do to keep Harry alive. We can 
debate till the cows come home that he had other options.  I think 
when JKR writes that this was the only choice for DD to make, it 
*was* the only choice.  And as Diana says DD expects the best of 
people.  Would you prefer him to be a judgmental, see the flaw in 
everyone and expect them to screw up type of person?  I think not. 

As to the notion that Sirius would have been a good guardian, I have 
my doubts about that.  Harry was a baby, I just don't see Sirius 
taking care of a baby.  I suspect that Lily and James made Sirius 
Harry's Godfather because Sirius was James' best friend, not 
necessary because they thought that Sirius would one day really have 
to care for Harry.  For all we know, Lily might actually have wanted 
Petunia to care for Harry.  Lily like DD saw the good in everyone 
too, and I think that she may have expected her sister to love and 
care for a child in her care. The Potters may have thought that with 
Sirius and Petunia that they had someone in both world. A mother 
figure to raise Harry until he was older, and a cool Uncle type to 
teach him about the WW when he was old enough to understand. After 
all Lily was raised in the MW herself as a young child, so she would 
not have seen that as such a bad thing.

Tonks_op