Harry and the Dursleys' abusive behaviour

[Ina Franken]

No: HPFGUIDX 1654

Hi,

this is my first post, so I should introduce myself. My name is Ina and
I am from Germany. I discovered the books last year shortly before
Christmas. I was curious because of all the attention they got and
bought the first two and got the third for Christmas. I read them a
"few" times since then. :-)

I have only read the british version and little bits and pieces of the
german translation of book one, because I read it a bit to my nephew.

I don't know that much about child abuse, but I find Harry's situation
very much Cinderella-like. I believe that such abusive situations as
described really exist, but JKR could easily follow the Cinderella
pattern without much experience or research. 

Ina