[HPforGrownups] Dudley-Bulley or popular kid?

[Meredith Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 20384

>><You were right on track mentioning Dudley's popularity.  Again, not a
great
>>role model to show that the mean kid is the popular kid, but I don't know
>>what would be perfect.  That's the key to anything.  You can never
nit-pick
>>too much because you'll never please everyone. >

>Where is it mentioned Dudly as 'popular'?  He was a bully and that is the
>long and short of it.  People did not befriend Harry because they "knew
>Dudley" and did want the living daylights beat out of them is the basic
gist
>of what was said in that section.  No where was he named as popular but
>extensively named as a bully who several in his school feared.

Well, I will say that most of the kids who bullied me growing up were the
'popular' kids, for sure.  I don't like that to be the case, by any means,
which is why I said 'not a great role model to show that the mean kid is the
popular kid.'  It happens a lot that the kid who picks on others becomes the
person everyone wants to befriend, if for no other reason than to stay on
his/her good side.  I think this is where Dudley falls.

Mer