[HPforGrownups] Dursley's bribed?, charmed? or afraid?

[Rona Patterson]

No: HPFGUIDX 50720


--- "karywick <karenwickersham at ameritech.net>"
<karenwickersham at ameritech.net> wrote:
> I looked in the archives to find discussion on this
> but could not 
> find any.  Maybe its just too old for my computer to
> find. If so just 
> please settle this argument between me and my
> husband.
> 
> The question is why after all the horrible things
> that have happened 
> at the Dursley's house like Dudley's pig tail in
> PS/SS, the cake 
> dropped in CoS, Aunt Marge being blown up in PoA,
> and Dudley's four 
> foot tongue GoA, do the Dursleys keep letting Harry
> come back each 
> summer?  We know that canon says that Dumbledore
> wants him at the 
> Dursley's because he is safe there but the Dursleys
> must have some 
> say in the matter.
> 
> I seem to think that they are really afraid of the
> power that the 
> wizarding world has.  

[edited parts]
>Shunique replies:

I agree with you that it is likely that the Dursleys
have gotten something out of this horrible deal. But
another question I had was why does Dumbledore make
Harry endure the Dursleys hatred. It bothers me that
everyone is saying that the only one Voldemort fears
(Dumbledore) has toss Harry to an even scarier fate
the Dursleys. 
Just my thoughts.
Shunique


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