Harry Potter: Who cares about belated motherly love?

Another disturbing possibility suddenly occurred to me...

Did they cast some kind of strengthening magic on the house? Or did Harry instinctively and subconsciously feel that the house should not be destroyed, so he did not destroy it? After all, he did not use any magic that would directly harm his aunt's family. Harry is such a good child... It is a blessing in disguise that he did not kill people under such treatment. Could it be that they also cast some magic on his aunt's family? However, Harry is indeed a gentle child, and he may instinctively not want to hurt others.

...It's a good thing that Harry didn't inherit James's personality.

According to the news reports, the interior of the house had been messed up several times, but it was incredible that the house was not destroyed. Was it because the house was made of brick? Or was it because the magic outburst was not strong enough to destroy the brick? I can't remember the details, but there were several times when the cost of repairing the ceiling was included, so I thought at the time that the roof was still intact. Was the cost of repairing the roof also included? There were so many bills that I can't remember. It may be that the main area of ​​the magic outburst was on the first floor. But even so, it is puzzling that the second floor was intact. It is also strange that the floor on the second floor did not collapse. As for the number of broken glass, it is incredible. From windows to lamps, tableware, display cabinet glass, almost everything that can be broken was broken. Furniture was also overturned, and the cost of replacing furniture and repairing walls was terrifying. But the glass windows were broken... If they had cast a strengthening magic on the exterior of the house, the window glass should not have broken. But whether it was the roof, the outer wall, or the structure between the first and second floors, they were all so solid... How should I put it, the supporting parts of the house were actually intact. After all, Harry was a child, so he probably wouldn't care about the building structure, right? Of course, it was true that the main structure was solid.

But the shattering of the glass must have been a nightmare for my aunt's family. This just deepened their fear and disgust of magic... It's really disturbing, am I thinking too much?

Harry had caused magic to go haywire so many times, but the house was so strong. I thought it might be because their house was a decent-looking one, after all, my uncle was the boss of a company. But now thinking back, it seems that it is not that simple. Even if the house did not collapse completely, it is possible that it was half-destroyed. The roof is not made of bricks, so it is not surprising that it was blown away. In a strong storm, the walls of the house may be fine, but the roof may be blown away. This situation is possible. Harry had caused a similar storm at home before, but the roof did not blow away, the second floor did not collapse, and the interior did not completely collapse. It was incredible.

Of course, maybe Harry's magic was not enough to destroy the main structure of the building, or he unconsciously suppressed his magic to prevent the house from collapsing. So, maybe Dumbledore didn't intervene at all. This is just my wishful thinking.

I heard that my aunt and her family had sought help from government agencies at first, but they never went there again. They were not the kind of people who would easily ask for help from the outside world, saying that they were troubled by a wizard child. In fact, despite the mess inside the house, they had remained silent. But if the exterior was significantly damaged many times, someone would eventually notice it. Even if the wizards didn't notice it because of Dumbledore's strong protection, others would report it to the Muggle government through other channels, and the Muggle government would then make a request for improvement to the Ministry of Magic. In this way, the top officials of the Ministry of Magic would eventually be informed of the situation, and powerful people would intervene. That would be a good thing for Harry, right? It was precisely because they didn't want this to happen that they set up such a strong protective barrier.

He didn't want the wizarding world to know, nor did he want the Muggles who knew about it to find out.

This must have cost a lot of money. If my speculation is correct, as Mr. Weasley points out, the huge amount of money Harry was raised with went into maintaining these protective spells. It was not enough, so perhaps the money in the separate vault was also used for this purpose? In addition, many magic books and magical instruments disappeared from the Potter family vault, probably to develop this magic.

Their real purpose was to prevent the Ministry of Magic from discovering the terrible treatment Harry was receiving. Although protecting Harry from dark wizards was also one of their goals, the more important thing was to prevent outside interference. This way they could train Harry according to their wishes.

Is this my delusion?

However, once enrolled, there was no way to completely prevent the Ministry from interfering. To bend the rules to that extent seemed to go against Dumbledore's justice. And if Harry could survive to that point, he would probably have become a child desperate for love.

Before entering Hogwarts, Dumbledore wanted to train Harry to be a chess piece that could act as he wished, or at least lay the foundation for him to grow into such a person before entering school. To this end, Dumbledore turned a blind eye to the abuse and even let the Squibs he controlled confirm that Harry grew up in a bad environment. Therefore, she was not allowed to intervene. Because Dumbledore believed that Harry's growth in an environment where magic was denied and abused was the ideal upbringing environment.

Harry feels relieved simply because the power of magic is accepted. Then, the wizarding world welcomes Harry into it with a "you're welcome" attitude. For Harry, who has never experienced warm acceptance, this will undoubtedly move him deeply.

Harry might have sighed, "What a wonderful place the wizarding world is."

Unlike Tom Riddle, Harry has long been seen as a hero, so he is not treated as an unknown person from a Muggle orphanage like Tom, so it is easier for him to find a sense of belonging. Dumbledore prepared a sense of belonging for Harry from the beginning. Snape once said that children who grow up in abuse will have low self-esteem. Everyone warmly welcomes Harry back to the wizarding world, and everyone is happy just because he exists. For Harry, who has never felt a sense of belonging in the Muggle world, his dry heart must be deeply moistened.

To do all this, Dumbledore spread the news of Voldemort's downfall and made Harry a hero, as the Weasley children speculated that it was actually Lily who did it. Dumbledore suggested that Harry's custody be given to Lily's relatives because he knew this. Sirius's inability to raise Harry made him pursue Peter regardless of the consequences, and everything was just as Dumbledore planned. Sirius had been used by Dumbledore since his school days, and he had to be excluded because he was too powerful. In this way, without Sirius, Harry, who grew up alone, could have a huge contrast when he came to the wizarding world from the cruel Muggle world.

All of this is to shape Harry into someone who acts according to Dumbledore's wishes.

However, Dumbledore would probably argue that it was no lie that Harry was recognized as the special child who fought off Voldemort and thus ensured his safety.

If the overly strong protection was removed or weakened after Harry entered school, the people at the Ministry of Magic would not suspect anything. The hero Harry Potter might not even imagine that he had grown up in such a harsh environment. Even those professionals did not realize Harry's many magical failures and his upbringing. Therefore, Harry would not have expected anything from the Ministry of Magic.

Are my thoughts too extreme?

If Harry could not help but use magic on his uncle's family after learning magic at Hogwarts, or if he unconsciously burst out with powerful magic like before entering school, the Ministry of Magic would definitely send people. If Harry was warned or even arrested, his trust in the Ministry of Magic would only be further weakened. He would think that he had a serious loss of control of magic since he was a child in the Muggle world, and was abused, but no one helped him. Once he entered Hogwarts, he became the target of the Ministry of Magic. This would make him more disappointed in the Ministry of Magic and no longer trust them. Taking this into consideration, the strong protection should be lifted before entering school, which is also one of Dumbledore's plans.

What if Harry was facing expulsion from Hogwarts, or even arrest and trial? And the only one who helped him was Dumbledore? The Ministry never got a handle on Harry's magical dysfunction and upbringing, and even those who showed up only wanted to take advantage of Harry, and would not win his trust. In this way, Harry's trust in the Ministry would only further disintegrate.

Eventually, Harry will develop blind trust in Dumbledore, believing him to be the only one on his side, and even as the fight with Voldemort deepens, Harry will not rely on the Ministry of Magic, but on Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix first.

Am I biased against Dumbledore? Maybe...

As Ron said, I am now suspicious of all Dumbledore's actions. But didn't Dumbledore use similar methods on Hagrid and me? He acted like the only ally in difficult situations, allowing certain harm to happen when he could have prevented it, and then lending a hand when we were in trouble. Hagrid had Myrtle, I had Snape, and Harry had his uncle's family. Although Hagrid didn't kill Myrtle directly, she did die, and Snape and Harry's uncle's family could also die, but fortunately it didn't happen.

He is such a terrible man... He believes that sacrifice is inevitable in order to achieve his own justice. Moreover, he has no conscience about putting people in cruel situations. Dumbledore will definitely argue that everything is for Harry's safety and he has absolutely no other intentions.

Even if the house was enchanted to make it easier for children who were not in school to lose control of their magic, Dumbledore would say that it was to protect the family of the Muggle raiser, even though the interior of the house had been damaged. Even if the magic was designed to prevent the detection of magic within the ward, Dumbledore would claim that this was to prevent dark wizards from noticing that a child with powerful magic was living in a Muggle community, because the wizarding world knew that Harry grew up with Muggle relatives.

But isn't the effect of that overly powerful protection just as I expected?

He is a mean old man. It is even more suspicious because this protection did work for Harry's safety. I don't know if this constitutes a criminal act. At most, it is just an improper use of the Potter family's property, but Dumbledore will claim that it is a necessary expense for protection. This explanation is not illogical. As Mr. Weasley said, he always acts according to what he thinks is justice, so he can rationalize all his actions. The residents of the wizarding world have always trusted him, so they have never doubted him.