Harry's cupboard was Re: Theoretical boundaries

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No: HPFGUIDX 120578


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

Pippin wrote:
snip
> Honestly, there are millions of children in the world right now 
> surviving in living conditions far worse than Harry's at the 
> Dursleys, who have been hungry every night of their lives and 
> have no home at all, much less a heated, lighted cupboard, with 
> a mattress, access to schooling and  books, glasses, television 
> and newspapers. Harry is deprived only in relation to the spoiled 
> and pampered Dudley.
>snip 
> Pippin

I think that this was the point being illustrated:  that Harry had a 
little cupboard, or closet, and Dudley had not one, but two bedrooms 
full of his junk.  It illustrates the difference in how they were 
treated.

Also, Harry was never, IIRC, dissatisfied with his cupboard.  He 
seems, IMO, to just be happy to have a sanctuary to go to.  He's made 
it his safe place.  The Dursley's don't move him until they know that 
the WW (DD) knows that he doesn't have a proper bedroom.

At least he didn't have to share a room with Dudley!

imamommy