Dursleys' desire to hold onto Harry

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/1/2002 1:00:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> sammerz2388 at a... writes:
> 
> > What if someone 
> > were to discover that the nephew they had raised for 11 years was 
> > some kind of "freak", shipped off to some *special* school? 
> 
> I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but what about them saying Harry 
> went to St. Brutus's School for Incurably Criminal Boys? With their need to 
> be 'normal' why would they pretend Harry was 'an incurably criminal boy'? In 
> this day and age one would probably come to the conclusion that Harry had 
> been influenced by his environment if they believed he went to St. Brutus's. 
> Though I suppose in comparison to him being a wizard it's not as disgraceful 
> to the Dursleys. 
> 
> ~Cassie~ 


It also encourages people to avoid him, and it would help to explain 
any "aberrant" behavior. They already know he's NOT normal, and 
they're petrified that he'll do something freakish - which he has, 
though not purposely - so they set up the explanation beforehand.

-C.K.
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