On the other hand (was Re: Disliked Uncle Vernon)

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No: HPFGUIDX 93167

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Del answers :
> 
> Aha ! I completely agree with you, and I repeat what I said in 
> another post : WHY didn't anyone do anything to stop their abusing 
> Harry ? Harry was going to school with unfitting clothes and broken 
> glasses, he was being chased and bullied by Dudley and his gang 
> right in the school and in the street, he must have acted in social 
> situations in a way that screamed "abused kid", he was left in a 
> tree for *hours* with a dog barking at him, etc... And yet we are 
> never told that anyone reported anything, that the social services 
> came to visit, that any teacher had a chat with the Dursleys, that 
> Dumbledore or anyone else came to visit them and check on Harry 
> (even though we know the WW had a way of knowing anything and 
> everything they needed to about Harry, through Mrs Figg), or 
> *anything* !!
> 
> The Dursleys don't share our moral standards to start with, but 
> noone in authority tried to enforce it on them either. Nobody 
> actually even tried to enforce the LAW, let alone any moral code, 
on 
> them...
> 
> Del


Erm... Yes, nobody reported anything to authorities ever. If other 
people are guilty too, it does not decrease Dursleys' guilt at all.

By the way, allow me to disagree with you very strongly on your 
suggestion that we don't share same moral standards. Yes, there are 
differences from culture to culture, but there are some moral maxims, 
which all western societies enforce with the law and some common 
world views. They do, honestly. :o)

The best example will be "don't kill" of course.

I came to live in America from the other side of the world and 
imagine my surprise, when I found out that my morals have a lot in 
common with the american morality.


Alla