The Dursleys *are* guilty (was : On the other hand )

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No: HPFGUIDX 93233

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> I'm not trying to discharge the Dursleys. I'm trying to add guilt 
on  other people who are partly responsible for the Dursleys' 
> *continuous* abuse of Harry. If DD had popped up next to 
Dudley the first time he hit Harry, or next to Petunia when she 
didn't give him enough to eat, or next to Vernon when he gave 
Harry one of Dudley's discarded clothes, I'm pretty sure they 
wouldn't have done it  *again* !<

And should Dumbledore also have popped up at the Burrow  to 
stop Fred and George when they turned Ron's teddy into a 
spider or used his puffskein for a bludger? Should he have 
written a stern note to Molly about Ron's second hand robes and 
broken wand? Should he have told Granny Longbottom that 
while Neville is not dangerously overweight the school would like 
to see him fed a bit less?   I suspect if he had, they'd have told 
him to bugger off. The Dursleys would do the same if they dared.

 Dumbledore could not have made any impression on the 
Dursleys except by force, and that would make him no better 
than they are.

Pippin