Dumbledore and other leaders

[Angel Lima]

No: HPFGUIDX 179511

bboymin:

You mentioned alternative scenarios under which Harry could
have been raised, but you are only looking at the 'rosy'
part of those scenarios. Dumbledore certainly weighed and
even spoke about Harry being raised under alternate 
circumstances. But while they would be better social
environments for Harry, they would not have been as well
defended and would have left Harry exposed and vulnerable.
Dumbledore weighed his priorities, and a LIVE Harry was
preferable to a happy but quickly dead Harry. 

Angel:

Apols this is in reply to your own reply to Dana.  My problem with Dumbledore's protection of Harry nagged at me the whole way through since I first saw the first movie!!!  (The books came after).  According to Dumbledore the protection lasted as long as Harry called the place where his mother's blood resides, home (am paraphrasing obviously as I can't be stuffed picking these books up anymore <bg>)

1.  Since Harry set foot in Hogwarts he had come to consider Hogwarts home - where he had friends and where Hagrid resided.  He vocalises it REPEATEDLY!

2. Lily's blood was always in Harry

Was it REALLY necessary for Harry to slum it with the Dursleys?  I had thought so, had hoped there was reason for the cruelty and the distance from Petals and Dimmers Snr.  It was a hope in vain.


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