[HPforGrownups] DD and Harry and Dursleys Re: Christian Forgiveness and Snape

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 164348

Marion:
Why do people find it so strange that DD put Harry with the Dursleys? They were the only people that could give him the blood-protection needed for the spell, and it would keep him safe. It wasn't nice (not for Harry, nor for the Dursleys who would've been far, far happier if they had never heard of Harry Potter) but it saved Harry's live.

It's not as if DD has no precedence: in WWII a million children were evacuated from cities like London to the countryside (and thousands even to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) to keep them safe from bombings. 
See:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/04/26/the_childrens_war_feature.shtml

There was a documentary about those children last year on the BBC. Even if the fosterparents were kind to them, being seperated from parents and siblings was hugely traumatic to many of those children.
But it was a good thing. Nearly 8000 children were killed in airraids on cities (one in ten airraids victims were below 16 years old)
Should the authorities have let hundreds of thousands of children be killed just because their evacuation and separation of their family was traumatic? Better traumatic and *alive* than dead, those authorities (and the children's families) must have thought. And they were right.


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