[HPforGrownups] The Dursley's

[storm stanford]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Diann Recla 
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  Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:43 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] The Dursley's


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  He is also afraid of the witches and wizards - he bought a gun for protection when they are hiding from the letters from Hogwarts.

  And this isn't the appropriate response to threat <g>

  Why is Vernon so scared of the magic community?  Is it possible that Vernon was related to the Riddles?

  because he is a bully and he does not recognise/is not able to catororise the magic community, thus what he can not control he is afriad of.

  I don't know that Marge is a real factor in the series; she does show how unpleasant and mean the family can be.

  And anyone who breeeds bulldogs has got to be a bit funny (sorry ppl with short snouted dogs.) and she is a characture of a certain english sterotype. I don't think she is there to show how mean family can be - she is too Ronald Dahl (SP?) to be scary. Or at least I find the daily reality of Petunia making HP work all day and then giving him a cheese sandwich for dinner much more threatening.

  Who was older, Lily of Petunia?
  How much knowledge does Petunia have of the magic world?
  probably not very much - remember students are forbidden to do magic on holidays. And by the time Lily had left school I feel they were pretty estranged. Maybe - like Harry bluffed the Dursley's - Lily bluffed her sister. The stuff she talks about - turning tea cups into toads, is not that difficult to pick up if Lily was talking about exams or whatever.

  Is the overindulgence of his parents a form of abuse?  Dudley appears to believe that he should always get his way.
  Of course it is - but we have long discussed the abusive nature of the Dursleys (admittedly usually in the context of their behviour towards Harry). I've done a lot of dog discussion today (in other forums) so drawing on that - they are creating an immature and uncertain child by "promoting" him in the family structure to controling adult status before he is ready for it. You see it a lot in dogs (the small dominant ones who have been over indulged. they almost invariably end up fat and nippy - a bit like Ripper in some ways - now there is a ll I hadn't seen before)

  Did Dudley learn anything from eating candy from Fred and George?
   And No, he will learn nothing but to fear what he does not understand/can not control from his experance with Feorge and Gred.

  I am sure that there are many more questions to be answered.

  yes, but I shall doom and gloom my as-straight-forward-explinations-as-I-can-make-it off to bed now and you will have to consider them without my pesimistic outlook

  Storm (feeling more Eyore than ususal)stomp, stomp, stomp ...



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