[HPforGrownups] Making an Impression (Was:Re: High Inquisitor / time)

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 71668

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  From: annemehr 
  <<<<snip>I want to know what is the true effect of these detentions on Harry? <snip> Even when he trashed Dumbledore's office he was not so much giving vent to his feelings as not being able to bear them: if you read carefully he was doing things to try not to think about Sirius or his own guilty feelings.<snip> What effect would the further detentions have, which were not described but merely mentioned?  Does anyone see that the detentions have changed Harry in any way?  Is their only purpose to be symbolic of the evils bureaucracy can have, and symbolic of Harry's willingness to be punished rather than go for help? <snip>>>>




  Harry spent the first 11 years of his life putting up with the abusive treatment of his'family', the Dursleys, enduring the ill treatment and the unfair/slanderous accusations with no one to turn to (he was labeled a destructive liar by his uncle to any authority figure that might have taken notice of Harry's condition). Only occassionally does Harry 'blow up' at his uncle's restrictions and punishments, and all it ever got him was more abuse.  He seemed to me to have fallen into the same preconditioned mindset of silently enduring/coping with the abusive detentions as he did at home.  Remember, both Umbridge and the Dursleys claimed that there was a fault in the boy, and that their punishments were 'all for his own good'.


  Dawn


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