Harry and the Dursleys' abusive behaviour

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 1678

Hi!

Without a doubt, the Dursleys neglect and emotionally abuse Harry.
It's pretty sad if you think about it. And it's pretty sad that there 
are real children in similar family environments.

-- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Ina Franken <Ina.Franken at f...> wrote:
> 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