[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Harry again.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 113948

Alla:
> Dumbledore says "You were not a pampered little prince, but as 
> normal a boy as I could have hoped under circumstances."-OOP,
> p.837,
> Have you ever read this quote as a support that Dumbledore was 
> afraid that Harry would grow up a pampered little prince?
> 
> Because I always read it as Dumbledore regret' that Harry did NOT 
> grew up a pampered little prince, but at least was as normal as 
> possible under bad circumstances.


I'm sorry; I don't understand your comment.  Of course Dumbledore
didn't want Harry to be a pampered little prince, a sort of good-guy
version of Draco or wizard-Dudley.  The opposite of "pampered" is
"not pampered" or "normal".  Harry is as normal as it's possible to
be under the circumstances.  If Harry is going to fulfill his
destiny, he'd have to be tough and god knows surviving the Dursleys
qualifies a kid as tough.

Magda




		
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