Harry Potter and the Weasley family

I doubt anyone wishes that HP had to stay with the Dursleys at all. They were horrible to him. But it all had to to do with Dumbledore's protective charm which could only remain effective if he came back to the Dursleys.

I've seen mentioned that as a baby he needed to be alongside blood relatives for shielding magic to work. While he all but walks out on them in POA movie, I seem to recall that there was some more Dursley stuff through more of the books. OOTP film he's back hangin' with them again, at the park with Dudley.
That could've been touched on with the movies, not sure why not.

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Protection charm notwithstanding, had Harry lived with the Weasleys and grown up in the wizarding world, there would have been certain things to consider:

1) Voldemort still had supporters. The Weasleys would've been in danger from the moment they took Harry in.

2) Assuming no harm came to Harry or the Weasleys, the attention, awe, and adoration that Harry would've received would have gone to his head. This was one of Dumbledore's biggest fears, that Harry would become too arrogant and conceited if he was raised up in the wizarding world. Could you really see Mrs. Weasley treat Harry the same way she'd treat one of her children? Would she ever yell at him the way she yelled at Fred, George, or Ron or discipline him in the way she disciplined her own flesh and blood?

Growing up with the Dursleys was the best option Dumbledore had. He could've raised Harry in secret, training him from day 1 on how to be a capable wizard when Voldemort came back, with Snape teaching him from a very young age as well. Harry would've been the wizard world equivalent to a Spartan warrior when he began to attend Hogwarts, but that's not what was best for him. It was better for him to get a perspective of what it was like to live as a normal human being for as long as possible before finding out that he was some sub-culture celebrity (and possibly that culture's messiah)

As an addendum, even Dumbledore acknowledges that he could've hedged his bets more effectively when it came to Harry. For all of his talk about how love was the most powerful magic in the world, when it came down to it, Dumbledore had to make a choice: Do I trust my feelings or do I trust logic?

Logically, Dumbledore should have raised Harry up and taught him everything about the deeper mysteries of magic. A primary education of magic with the world's greatest wizard would have done wonders. With that sort of training, Harry would have been a force to be reckoned with, throughout any of his duels.

But Dumbledore threw logic out. He chose his intuition. He knew that Harry would be in danger until Voldemort was completely vanquished and he knew that wouldn't happen for a very long time. The only thing that could protect Harry's life would be that charm. If Lily had had any other family in the world, they would have been a damn sight better for Harry to stay with, but alas, there was only Aunt Petunia. Dumbledore placed a lot of faith in his ideas about love, and ultimately it worked out, but it still wasn't the smart decision. It was just the right one.

Apparently he had to live with the Dursleys for his own protection. but I still think Dumbeldore could have done something to make them treat harry better - it would have been quite easy to frighten them.

I think that Harry should have stayed at the Dursley's. DONT GET MAD AT ME I love Harry, but it was necessary. Because of the protective charm, and the fact that if he would've grown up in a wizarding home it would've completely ruined it. He would know about his popularity and become a completely different person.

Frightening them might have made Dursley's reject Harry altogether .. which would have been worse

A lot of the good things about Harry's character developed because he was so poorly treated by the Dursleys. all a master plan by DD

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I would think that they would have rejected anyways and he had magical powers that they didn't have and I am sure that they all were jealous of.