Harry at the Dursleys / DD's feelings about it

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118541


Magda wrote:
> Because from what we've seen of the wizarding world so far, I think
> they would have overwhelmed Harry with adulation in their relief at
> being free of Voldemort.  It's not a reflection on Harry's
character; it's an acknowledgement of society's tendency to go overboard.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I disagree. Weasleys are wonderful example of the opposite. True, 
> they surprised and flattered to meet Harry, but after initial shock 
> they treat him as normal child (well, almost, Ginny does not count).
> 
> I submit there is a good chance that they would have done a good job 
> of raising him

Carol asks:
You don't think he would have been "Molly coddled" or given nicer
clothes and toys than the Weasley children because his parents had
left him money, just as he receives nicer dress robes than Ron for the
Yule Ball? Molly *does* distinguish between him and her own children,
in part because she's trying to make up for the mother love he never
received, but I think there's no question that she also considers him
special because of who he is (the Boy Who Lived). And the Weasley
children might not be so fond of him if he'd been raised in their home
as a "pampered prince" while they had to share second-hand toys and
wear hand-me-down robes. And they would have been in Harry's shadow
from an early age, much more than Ron is now. No one ever bowed to
Percy or the twins in the street, and no one ever will. It would be
very difficult for the children not to resent the celebrity in their
midst, and for Harry, or any child raised in such circumstances, not
to see himself as superior to the children who weren't "heroes."

Carol, not wanting to start another anti-Molly thread but still sure
that a normal upbringing for Harry was unlikely in the WW