Harry at the Dursleys / DD's feelings about it

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 118494


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" 
<bob.oliver at c...> wrote:

> Now, I also agree, to get back to Dumbledore, that he might be 
trying  to salvage all the good he can from a terrible situation.  
That is,  in OOTP he might have been trying to say "Well, you 
were alive and  you were a pretty normal kid, not a spoiled brat, 
and those are the only two things I can find good about this 
horrible situation."  If  that is indeed what he meant, I just wish
he had come out and said  it, rather than using the cryptic 
circumlocutions he employs.<

Pippin:

I think he (and Rowling) were making the point that just as 
parents who think they  are doing their best to control a difficult 
child may cross the line into abuse without realizing it, parents 
who fondly think they are pampering their little prince may also 
be abusing their power. 

I think Dumbledore's preachy enough as it is and doesn't need 
to be any plainer. The books are literature, not propaganda, and 
I'm sure Rowling thinks her readers are smart enough to decide 
for themselves whether Dumbledore had good reasons to place 
Harry with the Dursleys or not.

Pippin