Hermione Granger: She's only interested in you because she thinks you're the Chosen One.
Harry Potter: But I AM the Chosen One.
Ron: [Talking about Lavender] All she wants to do is snog me. My lips are getting chapped. Look!
Harry: I'll take your word for it.
Albus Dumbledore: Take my arm. That was fun. Most people vomit their first time.
Dumbledore: Oh, to be young, and to feel love's keen sting.
Hermione: Excuse me, I have to go and vomit.
Hagrid: Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are. It's the eyes I reckon. They unnerve some folk.
Harry: Not to mention the pincers.
Arthur Weasley: Times like these, dark times, they do funny things to people. They can tear them apart.
Ron Weasley: I'm in love with her!
Harry Potter: Alright. Fine. You're in love with her. Have you ever actually met her?
Ron Weasley: No. Can you introduce me?
Harry Potter: Professor, you knew Voldemort. You were his teacher. What was he like?
Horace Slughorn: Dumbledore put you up to this, didn't he?
Albus Dumbledore: Once again, I must ask too much of you Harry.
Harry Potter: Did you know, sir? Then?
Albus Dumbledore: Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No.
Albus Dumbledore: You must be wondering why I brought you here.
Harry Potter: Actually sir, after all these years I just sort of go with it.
Answer: Leaving an untrained young wizard, who obviously has some behavioral issues and has no idea he is magical, alone in the Muggle world would be extremely dangerous. Dumbledore does not yet know that Riddle will become evil, but like any teacher, he wants to give a troubled youth an opportunity to find a new path in life.
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