the Order's chat with the Dursleys

[DBoyken at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 69451

In a message dated 7/11/2003 11:43:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

Carolyn said:
> But I also wonder if it was that vague guilt that perhaps prompted him > to suggest to the Order that a little chat with the Dursleys might be > in order. After all, Snape now knows a lot more about Harry's > childhood than the rest of them, and might see it as a way of making > up a little bit (otherwise, I wonder why Harry's friends > didn't act > before).

----------------If anyone, I tend to think that Dumbledore would have been the one to urge the Order to have that nice little chat with the Dursleys. Dumbledore has known what Harry's home life has been like, but I don't think he let himself feel badly about it until this year. Now that he spilled so much to Harry (including his own feelings of guilt and remorse--and the reason he wasn't picked as a prefect), I think that Dumbledore's trying to make it up to him. (Assuming, of course, that it wasn't Lupin or Arthur or Moody or Tonks who thought of this! Or--who knows--maybe Sirius mentioned sometime that he was going to have a talk with them himself, and they did it for him as much as for Harry?)

--Deb