[HPforGrownups] Re: FAT

[Danette Schardt-Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 20421


--- catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., JamiDeise at a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/7/2001 7:12:04 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> > saitaina at w... writes:
> > 
> > << They teqnically did nothing that could get
> Harry taken away from
> >  them (he was feed, clothed and had a bed) and
> while it wasn't 
> REALLY the
> >  best thing to do, it was all they knew to do. >>
> > 
> > Locking him in a room with bars on the windows and
> feeding him cold 
> soup and 
> > bread once a day would get him taken away. At
> least in the U.S.  
> Maybe in 
> > Britain that's a common way parents use to toughen
> their kids up.
> > 
> > Jami
> 
> As a Brit, I had to step in and say of course it
> isn't!  Social 
> services not getting involved with Harry and the
> Dursleys is 
> something I have always been amazed about.  Prior to
> his moving into 
> the bedroom, poor Harry spent much of his time
> locked in the cupboard 
> under the stairs, always had broken glasses, was
> probably often very 
> bruised because of the beatings from Dudley and his
> gang and had 
> clothes which were obviously too big for him.  I am
> surprised that 
> the only thing we hear about Harry's teachers is
> their complaints 
> about his strange behaviour.  This leads me to
> believe that Harry 
> never complained - probably very introverted and
> used to keeping his 
> head down.
> 
> Catherine
> 
> 
I'm afraid I have to disagree with this one from
personal experience.  The first day that my 5-year-old
went to school the teacher called Social Services on
me based on the fact that my daughter had 4-day old
cat scratches on her arm and a VERY(2+ years old) old
scar in the middle of her back.  I don't know about
the UK but in the US system teachers are almost
fanatical(sometimes) about CPS(Child Protective
Sevices) and SS and about calling them in for
"possible abuse".  Just the fact that Harry never
seemed to have any new clothes or glasses would be
cause for the average teacher to call CPS on neglect
charges, let alone the fact that he was constantly
bruised from Dudley beating on him.  The fact that
Dudley was always better fed and clothed would have
been a major tip-off to a teacher as well.

Danette

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