  He did hope that he wouldn't meet his parents who he knew were still out there. Lily and James Potter they were called and they had left him. They left him here, though Petunia did say they were convinced by some man named Dummydore or something like that. Harry didn't know who that man was but who, in their right mind, thought that this was a good place to put a child. A question he didn't exactly want answered, if he could avoid going anywhere near anyone who knew his parents then all the better.