[HPforGrownups] Did Dumbledore ultimately redeem himself?

[Sandra Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 192897

(note: with the new participants, perhaps it's time for the list elves to
remind everybody of the quoting rules? They work pretty well).

Sherrie:
With all due respect, if anyone is to blame for Harry being placed at the
Dursleys', it's Lily.  The magic she used to protect Harry - an old and
deep magic - required the protection of  her blood, her family.

Bart:
And, how many hours did Lily have to consider this? Minutes? Probably just
a matter of seconds, and the first priority was to protect Harry. There
really wasn't much time to consider

Sherrie:
Sir-  She had 18 months. Lily & James were well aware that what they were
doing was dangerous & could easily result in their deaths. It would be a
poor magickal parent who wouldn't begin weaving the strongest protective
magick they could find around their child. The magick was already in
place-  Lily's death was the trigger that activated it, when it was needed.
what might happen several years in the future.

Bart:
The spell depended on Morty offering Lily her life in exchange for Harry's.
How could she have prepared for that eventuality in advance?

Bart

Crescent:
We actually only have Dumbledore's word that Harry needed to be
there because of the blood magic. Considering how Dumbledore twisted the
truth in other ways, I find it quite possible he would also have told
half-truths to keep Harry there. And after Voldemort's resurrection, having
Harry's blood would have let him personally through those wards so keeping
him there makes no sense.

I wonder what would have happened if Neville's parents hadn't been driven
insane by Bellatrix and another death eater. For they were named as
godparents and would have legally been his guardians. In fact, from what I
recall (which could be flawed), they were killed a week after Harry's
parents. How was it that Dumbledore just walked in and took a child for
whom he did not have guardianship?



On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Bart Lidofsky bart at moosewise.com
[HPforGrownups] <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> (note: with the new participants, perhaps it's time for the list elves to
> remind everybody of the quoting rules? They work pretty well).
>
> Sherrie:
> With all due respect, if anyone is to blame for Harry being placed at the
> Dursleys', it's Lily.  The magic she used to protect Harry - an old and
> deep magic - required the protection of  her blood, her family.
>
> Bart:
> And, how many hours did Lily have to consider this? Minutes? Probably just
> a matter of seconds, and the first priority was to protect Harry. There
> really wasn't much time to consider
>
> Sherrie:
> Sir-  She had 18 months. Lily & James were well aware that what they were
> doing was dangerous & could easily result in their deaths. It would be a
> poor magickal parent who wouldn't begin weaving the strongest protective
> magick they could find around their child. The magick was already in
> place-  Lily's death was the trigger that activated it, when it was needed.
> what might happen several years in the future.
>
> Bart:
> The spell depended on Morty offering Lily her life in exchange for
> Harry's. How could she have prepared for that eventuality in advance?
>
> Bart
>
> 
>
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