Harrys childhood

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No: HPFGUIDX 16963

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> Whoa - would you treat your own children that way?  Or would you 
> wanted to have been treated that way if you were a child?

These are very redundant questions, in my opinion. Of course I would 
not have wanted to be treated that way as a child. I specifically 
said in my post that I was shocked at much of the Dursleys' 
behaviour, and found it absolutely deplorable. And I do think that 
Harry will carry scars from that childhood with him forever. All I 
was trying to propose was that there is something more to the 
Dursleys than meets the eye, particularly since they were very afraid 
of Harry's background and his 'lot'. And as to the question of 
whether I would treat my own children that way, I have two points to 
make: Harry was not the Dursleys' child, making it doubly harder for 
them to accept him seeing as they were so terrified of him, and two I 
am shocked that you would presume to ask such a question. I only hope 
you didn't mean it literally.