Harry at the Dursleys / DD's feelings about it

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No: HPFGUIDX 118505


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
Very well.  In the *abstract*, Harry is better off not being 
a "pampered prince" or, if you like, a spoiled brat.  I don't think 
that is in any way controversial.  Nor do I think Alla is arguing 
that Harry would have been better off as a spoiled brat.  Rather she 
is trying to say that all children in normal homes are pampered, i.e. 
lovingly indulged, at times and to an extent, and Harry would have 
been better off being "spoiled" *to that extent.*  We might use the 
Weasleys as an example.


Alla:

Indeed. I am not quite sure WHY do we think that Harry would have 
been a spoiled brat, had he been raised in WW, just because 
Dumbledore THOUGHT so, when Harry was one year old.

Wasn't Dumbledore at the end of OOP admitting how many mistakes in 
judgment he made with Harry and Sirius? Isn't it possible IF he truly 
thought so that he was WRONG?