Dursleys or Death (was:Re: Christian Forgiveness and Snape...

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 164498

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
Jen:
 <snip>...what parent could choose blood protection over love,        
> > warmth and real home?
 Betsy Hp:
> Um...me?  This is the other side of the argument I really don't get.  
I  can only assume that the assumption is that Harry wasn't in all that 
much danger.  But if I were given the choice between a warm and loving 
home for a few years, then my son in Bellatrix's hands for a few hours, 
then death, I'd take the blood protection with the Dursley's thank you 
very much.  Sure Harry suffered, but he's alive.
**snip**
> Betsy Hp

Doddie here:

I don't think DD realized how Harry would be treated...Also, given that 
cannon set forth that prior communication occurred between DD and 
Petunia...I often thought that part of said communication was that 
Petunia and Co. was not to simply shelter Harry...but ALL of the 
Potters, Harry, James, and Lily--and Petunia agreed!

However Lilly and James died...and all she got on her door step was her 
orphaned nephew...(I think  this may well explain much of Petunia's 
behavior towards Harry...Is petunia, perhaps like Snape, resentful that 
she was left with only Harry and not Lily..(sheesh everyone does seem 
to admire her so)..If this is, in fact what happened...can you imagine 
Petunia's resentment at never being able to lord the "powers of 
muggles" and "normal life" around her "witch/wizard" sister and brother-
in-law..

Fact of the matter was that DD thought he had the difficult task of 
choosing between two "evils"...when actually his first instinct was 
correct....Harry should have been raised by Hagrid...(probably why we 
always see DD not paying mind to the headmasters portraits advice..) 
Hence Hagrid is the one chosen to introduce Harry into the WW..(making 
Hagrid, a half-giant, who is not allowed a wand legally, Harry's WW 
father...at least, this plan is successful...

So who does Harry actually NEED to forgive?
First of all, his parents:

(They did not listen to DD as acutely as they should have/could have..)

Perhaps DD offered up Snape(for the Potter's to stay at Spinners End) 
but Snape couldn't control his temper and Lily had reservations because 
she was tired of the stalking..

James however, saw that despite the life debt owed, Snape was the same 
B*NG H*LE that he always was..and of course  James said, "no!".

Harry of course forgave DD....he also forgave wormtail...so we may 
assume that he may have forgiven a great deal many between both..


Now, I may be wrong, but I believe that  Harry may well go after 
Wormtail before Snape...

DD