[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry and the Dursleys

[Cristina Rebelo Angelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 54657



  imamommy wrote:
  >Another thing:  why *didn't* the Dursley's turn Harry over to an
  >orphanage?  I sure would like a peek at the letter Dumbledore wrote
  >them.  What could he possibly say that would have compelled them to
  >keep him?  And why would they keep him if they never intended to
  >even try to love him?

  grace701
  Would anyone believe that maybe the Dursleys' actually have a soft
  spot for Harry?  I know, I know they treat him like garbage, but
  deep down inside there's a little iddy biddy love.

  Greicy

  [Cristina Rebelo Angelo] Apart from whatever was in the letter (I'd bet
something more like a menace of blowing them up if they didn't keep Harry
that an appeal or some kind of soft reasoning :-), maybe the Dursleys kept
Harry for that masochist thing of having a burden. Let's face it, they are
considered soooooooooo good for having taken him in... I've always put it
under this devious psychological mechanism, not quite the religion thing of
having to suffer, but more the secret pleasure of being a victim of the
family's rotten sheep - and also a great way to make at least someone,
especially someone weaker, pay for all Petunia had had to put up with.
Remember, there's somewhere where Petunia spits out that Lilly's weirdness
had been very well taken by their parents. If you take a look into english
literature, you'll see a lot of these cases, where relatives take in the
"rotten" youngster, and gloat in the pleasure of making it suffer, and in
the social status it gives them (not english lit, but Cinderella and Snow
Whte might be an example).





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