not a caricature; nothing wrong with having been abused

[Schlobin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 1625

Let me say (again) that the Dursleys treatment of Harry is NOT a caricature,
but a very accurate example of child abuse. It, in fact, is a less SERIOUS 
example
of child abuse because although he gets beat up by the kids at school, and 
punched
continuously by Dudley and friends, he does not end up in the hospital with 
broken
bones. 

I have no clue whether the author was herself abused as a child, but ya' 
know, it's not to her discredit if she had been...it would be to her credit 
that she survived so well, and is such an outstanding person....People 
jumping to deny that possibility feel to me as if they are saying that 
there's something wrong with the person who was abused.

Susan