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0100 November 1st, 1981 Privet Drive, Surry
Albus Dumbledore stood with his deputy head, Minerva McGonagall, a few houses down from number 4 Privet Drive. They awaited Hagrid with the precious cargo, one little Harry Potter, newly orphaned. After debating with himself, and his esteemed colleagues of Hogwarts, he had decided to foster the poor boy with his maternal aunt. However, rumors had reached Albus' ears of an estrangement between the Evans' sisters. Blood wards or no, Lily most likely wanted her sister as her sons custodian even less than the Malfoy's.
As Hagrid pulled up on the flying motor bike, handing off the bundled bunting, the Great Albus Dumbledore, Head of the Wizengamot, Order of Merlin awardee, defeater of Gellert Grindlewald, had an attack of conscience. Was it really for the greater good, leaving a precious babe on the doorstep of beings so normal, so muggle, so mundane, when the wards of Hogwarts are comparable, nay, even preferable? Wards can be strengthened. If the bane of Voldemort's existence was love as Albus believed, wouldn't it be best if Harry was loved and taught to love in return than merely surviving off the charity of begrudging relatives?
As the bearded man contemplated the future of the boy, he gazed down at the rosey cheeked cherub, already in love with the sweeting since he first held him after he was born. He could give the boy the love and devotion he required from a fit guardian. Minerva could help, of course, as well as all the other professors. Where better than to nourish young minds and hearts than Hogwarts?
Holding the little lamb cuddled to his chest, Minerva looking at him smugly as she knew his decision, Albus made a choice that would change little Harry Potter's fate.