Harry at the Dursleys

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118452


Alla wrote :
"Harry is ALWAYS hungry at Dursleys, not just missing one meal or two.
 When he eats, he describes in details what he is given and I don't 
know, but to  me it clearly does not seem to be enough,"

Del replies :
In GoF, Dudley is on a diet, and Harry goes hungry because of it. As a
result, he identifies with Sirius stuck in the cave. The narrator
tells us that *after the last summer*, Harry knew what it was to be
continually hungry (paraphrase). Logically, this would mean that Harry
had never been continually hungry before.

But I do believe that he was often hungry for no other reason than
because the Dursleys didn't care to feed him properly, which is indeed
a form of abuse.

Del