[HPforGrownups] Theoretical boundaries

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 120323

Kneasy wrote:
>Where I start to get restive is when, for example a thread starts and
>suddenly there's a load of posts castigating the Dursleys. Sure, they're

>But so far as I'm concerned the Dursleys POV could be important to
>the overall story - just possibly.
>Why do they treat Harry the way they do?
>Is there, in their own eyes at least, some sort of twisted justification?
>There could be. What if it's not hate but fear? Fear of anything
>magical. What if they fear magic as much as say, the wizard in

Quite so. They started off as cartoon figures, but there have always been a
whole lot of questions underlying exactlyl why they are the way they are.
Mostly because the Dursley's aren't benign or even disinterested in the WW
(as you might expect from the fact that there are a whole lot of Muggle
relatives out there who could blow the gaff on wizardry if they were
inclined to chatter about it), they are actively hostile. Why is that? What
was the relationship between Lily and Petunia when she met Vernon? What was
Vernon's take on the matter? _Did_ something nasty happen to the Evans
family as a result of Voldemort's rebellion? And what's been said since?

Like you, I swiftly pass over posts where people get upset because their own
moral values aren't met by people in the Potterverse, I'd far rather try to
understand the characters from their own perspectives and those of the world
that they live in (which at least for wizards are completely alien to our
own) than to get umpty because some of them would fall foul of the
authorities in our world.

Cheers

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