Snape and Harry again.

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No: HPFGUIDX 113971

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich > 
> 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

Well, I think a lot of people have misconstrued Dumbledore's decision 
to leave Harry with the Dursleys as in some way a plot to "toughen 
Harry up," although there is certainly not a shred of evidence for 
that in canon.  Also, it flies straight in the face of JKR's own 
statment on this issue.  To wit (paraphrase):

Question:  Is Harry related to Dumbledore?
JKR: If he was, or if he had any other relatives, he wouldn't have 
had to live with the Dursleys.

JKR seems to be saying straight out that the ONLY reason for Harry to 
live with the Dursleys was protection.  Any idea that Dumbledore 
meant to "toughen Harry up" or thinks that the experience "prepared" 
him to meet Voldemort is horse manure.

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