Give Him a Normal Life: Difference between revisions

* Subversion: Parent ''figure'' Dumbledore leaves infant [[Harry Potter|Harry]] to the Muggle world so that he has a chance of growing up relatively normal and level-headed. {{spoiler|We later learn another part of the reason Dumbledore had Harry live with the Dursleys was so that he could be protected until his 17th birthday from Voldemort by the charm Lily had unintentionally put on him when she died protecting him. The only way this charm could work was if he called the place when Petunia (Lily's only living blood relative) lived home. This is also the reason that Harry is not allowed to spend entire summer breaks with the Weasleys and must go home each summer.}} It's a miracle it works, as the foster parents he had could have made him a new Voldemort. He does acknowledge his error at the end of Book 5, though.

** Likewise, {{spoiler|Memory}} Lupin actually says this to Harry:

* [[Dresden Files|The other wizard Harry]] gives up his daughter so that she can have a normal life - or a life at all - in ''Changes''.

* In the book Ruby Red, Gwen's mother lies about her birth date so that no-one will suspect that she inherited the family time-traveling gene; she hopes that Gwen won't inherit it after all and can live as a normal kid. For sixteen years, Gwen's cousin Charlotte (who has the same birthday) is believed to be the heir of the gene, and she was groomed to survive in the past. [[Puberty Superpower|But then Gwen starts time-traveling.]]