Dudley's development

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 92578

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:
> Geoff Bannister wrote:
> ..and when Professor McGonagall objects to Harry being brought to 
> the Dursleys, she remarks.....
> > "And they've got this son - I saw him kicking his mother all the 
> way up the street, screaming for sweets."
> > (same chapter p.15)

Unless, of course, Aunt Petunia was CARRYING Dudley down the street 
so that he was kicking her directly (though, babies usually start 
walking around 12 months, so he COULD have been walking himself)--and 
who said he had to be yelling in words, to be screaming for sweets? 
He could have just been pointing to some candy his Mom had and, well, 
screaming! 

Deb in NJ