In defense of DD WAS musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

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No: HPFGUIDX 158653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
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 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. 

Alla:

Let me see. Do I prefer him to double and triple check on people 
whom his Deputy had doubted after one day to make sure that kid he 
put in their care is okay? Um, **yes**, I absolutely do.

Do I prefer him to investigate more than he did, before turning his 
back on someone who was Harry's guardian per his parents wishes? Um, 
**yes** again.

Do I prefer him to be quiet about what happened in GH and not making 
Harry a celebrity if that could be helped? Um , **Yes** again ( I am 
not seeing much canon to support a_svirn argument that DD leaked the 
story to the press yet, but I think that the speculation is rather 
convincing as of today).

That is again, putting aside **Harry had to grow up with Dursleys 
for the sake of the story" argument, of course.

Tonks:
> As to the notion that Sirius would have been a good guardian, I 
have 
> my doubts about that.

Alla:

Potters did not seem to have their doubts.

Tonks  wrote:
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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.
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Alla:

Do you see Lily going along with something she did not want? I
frankly
don't. That is why IMO Sirius is the guardian she would want for her
kid, not because he was James' best friend, but because he loved
Harry. If one is able of loving the child, one would learn to care
for the baby, even if one never dealt with the babies before, but if
there is no love, then no matter how skilled caretaker is, something
very important is missing. IMO.


Tonks:
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.

Alla:

If we learn that Lily indeed want that, then it would be a different
story.

> Magpie:
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> After all, it's hardly his place to decide he's got to protect a 
kid from 
> some nebulous concept of "being spoiled" by sticking him with 
people who 
> actively hate him.

Alla:

Yes, word to that and to your whole post, I think.



JMO,
Alla.