The random thoughts that are in my head...

What if Dumbledore had NOT taken Harry to the Dursleys after Lily and James were killed? What if Dumbledore had heeded McGonagall's warning that they were the "worst sort of Muggles"? What if Harry had grown up in a wizard family instead? Would he have been different? How would the series be different? Makes me wonder...

Well it would all depend on the family he grew up with. If he grew up with the Weasleys he might act normal then say if he grew up with the Diggory family.

Well, I think it would! I mean, he would have had a lot more pride, and a lot less money too prolly! But i don't think it would affect it that much!

If Harry grew up with wizards and witches i bet he wouldnt get so angry ;)

Well, I think it would be more dangerous if Harry grew up with witches and wizards because Harry would be more vunerable to you know who.

also, how do you get money on LC?

If Harry had grown up in a wizard family, he would have had a REEEEEEALLY big ego, don't you think? I mean, he would be recognized by everybody ALL THE TIME, and I think that would have gone to his head!! I think that he would be like Draco; snobbish, egostistical, and just plain full of himself!!

But hey, that's just me! ;)

I think it would change everything. When Harry was introduced to the wizarding world he had to learn all sorts of new things. But if would have grown up with a wizarding family all of those things would have come naturally for him. There wouldn't near as much mystery, cuz his past would be common knowledge. I don't think the books would be near as much fun that way...

Your right Lianslo, the Harry Potter books wouldnt be so much intertesing if he grew up with wizards, but i think it might be interesting if he grew up with Sirius Black. :wizard:

I totally agree with that. They wouldn't be NEARLY as fun, cause half the fun in the books is Harry LEARNING to be a wizard!!!

And its sort of like we're learning alone with him as well, makes it easier to explain things in the wizarding world because Harry and the reader are both in the dark.

i think it would be a lot different. he would already know evrything about voldemort and sirius black. so he would have known a lot more about wizarding life. plus he would probably already no about the prophesy in book 5 so sirius probably wouldnt be dead. i think alot of things would be changed

I think that soooooo many things would have been different too. I mean, Harry could even had ended up being best friends with Draco and hating the Weasley's!! :o

Well if Harry and Ron hadnt met on the train Harry might of been friends with Draco,.....I mean think about it, Draco introduced himself to Harry and everything. Then Harry probably would have been sorted into Slytherin!! Wow...its weird to think about!!

Ok, that was a little off topic.

well, not so much off topic really :D. it's just a random thought like Rogue's and i think i have to agree with you on that. malfoy was actually polite the way he introduced himself.....exept for the comment (the hint) about ron, but he wouldn't have made that comment if harry hadn't met ron.

but they actually met sooner, harry and draco. in the robe shop. and harry already thought then that draco was pretty snobbish so he was never interested in being friends with draco. i guess

Hey did kind of have a bad outlook on Draco from the get go. But - if Harry had been brought up by a wizarding family, he wouldn't have been feeling so vulernable at that moment, and mabye that would have effected the way he percieved Draco.

Basically, I'm just really glad JK didn't write the books this way...too many good things about them would have changed.

Thats right!! I forgot about that, I guess because I havent read the first book in ages, so I was thinking of the movie.

I dont know if Harry and Draco would have been friends if Harry lived with a wizarding family. The Malfoys probably wouldnt have been the most popular family on the block and if Harry was lving with a wizarding family, that did not support Voldermort I'd doubt that they would have associated with the Malfoys.

i like that dumbledor left harry with the durslys but it would be interesting if he lived with wizards but then all the books would be different and if they are different then they might not be as good in the long run :blink: :P :lol: :D :wizard:

Well at the time Harry was in no danger of voldemort because everyone thought he was dead.

True, when someone is presumed dead, no one's expecting them to be plotting revenge in the shadows. But who knows. I'd think that Harry would know a lot more about the wizardy world, that's for sure. But since he wouldn't have been protected by whatever magic that is in Privet Drive, I'd predict that Voldermorth would have confronted him a lot sooner, and maybe Harry would know why he wants to kill him so much.

I can't imagine that the place more safe for harry can be Privet Drive - i mean - i know that about a bond with the family, but there has to be LOVE in there - but since the Durseley seemed to hate him - i can't understand that or -pherhaps there IS some love . .. maybe deep . .. . deep .. . deep . . deep . . . deep .. . deep .. deep . . . deeeeeeeeep inside, the dursley really love Harry . . :blink:

You could be right. I dont think Vernon likes him-I know he hates him!! But Petunia might very deep down love him. :D

but it's got to be VERY: deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep down inside! and only in petunia. i dunno tho. it seems sorta logical, i guess. he IS, after all, family. maybe she's just always mean to him because she doesn't want to reveeal her true feelings... you know, so Vernon don't divorce her or something!

I don't think the books would have been as good if harry had grown up with a wizard family because first of all, harry would know about all of the wizarding stuff already and it wouldnt be this big suprise to him. and a part of the ig is the many things he ges through with the dursleys, which i think is pretty interesting to see how the dursleys take the situations that harry gets them into

Um yeah he'd most likely be dead, he wouldn't have the Dursley's protection so his mother's blood couldn't save him those multiple times. I think it depends on who Harry would've grown up with as to how he would turn out, providing he survived.

Yeah, i think so too...and whoever said that if he grew up with sertain wizard families he would have some major ego, i agree...it would strongly depend on who, but i think it was coldfire who said, half the fun is harry discovering he was a wizard, its just a lot more interesting that way. And he would know a lot more about lord voldemort, and maybe he would have been scared of him like everyone else if he knew before hagrid told him... wow..a lot to think about!!

i think if harry had grown up with a wizard family he would have got a lot of attention and even the people who adopted him would have treated him better than their own children, which will make him a pampered prince. As he grew up with the dursleys he knew what hardship meant and that is why he could cope up with the taunts he got from slyherin and sometimes from his own housemates, he could go through the difficult time in his first year when everyone hated him for losing them a 150 points, and so on. i think that is enough for now. :) ;)

A very good point, sertain families would probably treat him better than the rest, like how karkaroff treats victor krum in the fourth book, like he's so much better than everyone else.

ok. for one, he had to take harry to the dursleys. he explained that at the end of one of the books. it was to keep his mothers protection going, and since petunia was the only relative he had (blood relative, not godfathers like sirius.) DD said that going back to the dursleys at least once a year renewed the love protection supplied by his mother. and right there, it shows that harry has no relatives (excluding sirius)

but i think that it wouldnt have been the same. then harry woul have known that he was a great conqueurer. that would have chnaged him, and there really wouldnt have been a story to tell, because its really based on harry not knowing hes famous or a wizard.

and also, cant the children of wizards do magic with their families and not break the statute? that would mean harry would know he was a wizard, and that he wouldtn have found out for the first time on his 11th.

plus, he would have been sorrounded by other people that adored him, so he probably wouldnt have grown to like ron and hermione, which is also a key point in the plot....now im just rambling.

not really, but yes then harry probably woulndn't be friends with ron and hermione, who knows, maybe he'd be hanging out with people like draco malfoy and pansy parkingson! And like its been said before, half the fun is harry learning he's a wizard and adjusting to the wizarding world. And thats a very good point that there was really nobody else to take him in, no relatives, sirius was in askaban...so that really leaves nobody else

I don't think that Petunia loves him at all, but because his mother loved him sooo much, and her blood is in Petunia, that is how her love continues to protect him through Petunia. I think that if Harry had been raised by a wizard family that one of two things would have happened. 1) (Remember Voldemort's followers were still causing havoc for awhile after Harry's parents died, and Voldy dissapeared) Harry would have been shipped off to one family, and had Deatheaters come kill that family trying to get to Harry, and so it would have continued, probably for many more years than they actually did, because they would have kept trying to kill HGarry in an attempt to bring back Voldy, so Harry would have sent to family after family, or killed eventually. Or 2) Harry would have been raised to think that he was entitled to the world, and the world was at his feet, and he would have grown up to be even worse than Draco. In fact they probably would have ended up being friends and torturing Ron and Hermione. Hmmmmm....... interesting.....

I'm sure that Petunia loves him in a way, but I'm not so sure about Vernon... I think that he's definately scared enough of Harry that if anyone asked, he'd say yes, but in his mind he'd be thinking
"I hate him. I hate him. I hate him...."