[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry at the Dursleys / DD's feelings about it

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118487

 > 
> Carol responds (briefly):
> All I'm trying to establish (and it's difficult when the only
> people
> who respond to my post are those interested in--I might almost say
> obsessed with--the Dursleys and child abuse) is that being brought
> up
> as a "pampered prince" would have been a very bad thing for Harry.
> I'm
> not talking about Dumbledore or his real motive, which we know to
> be
> Harry's survival. I'm talking about why growing up as a "pampered
> prince" would be bad for Harry. Let's leave the Dursleys and
> Dumbledore out of it and look only at that.
> 
> Pampering is spoiling. Treating Harry as a hero would very likely
> inflate his ego. Those are the points I made and supported upthread
> and the ones I would like to see answered.
> 
> Carol, hoping she won't have to go upthread to retrieve her
> unsnipped post


I totally, completely, absolutely, 100% agree with Carol.

Magda 



		
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