[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Harry again.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 114010

--- dzeytoun <dzeytoun at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Dzeytoun

The "toughening up" is a result of the situtation, not a cause; as
JKR said, the prime motive was magical protection.   

THere's a fairy-tale quality to the HP series (and is particular
apparent in the first part of the first book) where Harry - like
Cinderella - undergoes tribulation and personal degradation at the
hands of near-relatives only to be given the opportunity to take his 
rightful place in the world with the assistance of a magical stranger
- like a fairy godmother.  Harry is rendered deserving of a chance at
a golden future because of his earlier trials. This is the context in
which the Dursleys treatment of Harry is best understood.

Magda (who doesn't think that references to organic fertilizer are
helpful to an open and free-ranging discussion)


		
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