[HPforGrownups] Re: Why need more?

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 84785





> Iggy said:
>
> > She has still made sure he was taken care of (not in four-star quality,
> but
> > better than being in an orphanage...)
>
 > Suzanne

> I don't think you can assume that. I'd bet that if Harry had been raised
in
> an orphanage, he'd have had clothes that fit and I also suspect they'd
have
> fixed his glasses. I also imagine he'd have had more food to eat.
>
>
Me (K)

 I agree with Suzanne, he might well have been better off in an orphanage.
One of the main reasons statistics show that children do better in families
than in care is because of the emotional needs that a family can meet but a
care home really isn't equipped for. The Dursleys aren't exactly interested
in meeting those needs.

Also for the first 11 years of his life he had no friends because Dudley and
his group of bullies used to scare people off. Either he would have been
able to make friends in a home or, better yet (at least more amusing), he
could have made friends with an older 'trouble' kid from the home who could
have made the bullies think twice about picking on Harry.

Of course the downside is that if he had manifested 'strange abilities' in a
home they might have been more noticed and he might have been singled
out/picked on for that.

K