Many sleepless nights
paul_terzis
paul_terzis at yahoo.gr
Tue Feb 15 07:17:20 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 124581
> Freud wrote:
>"He put Harry into a situation where he would have no status at
> all. Where his powers would not be discovered or developed. Where
> Harry would be forced to experience what life is like without
> kindness or compassion. Where he would be forced to work for his
supper.
>
> Why? Why would Dumbledore do this? For humility! More than anything
> else Harry needed humility - a quality that Voldemort sorely lacks."
>
> Lupinlore wrote:
>" If this is indeed the case (and I don't believe it is), DD
> is a truly reprehensible person, on par with Voldemort. And yes, I
> mean that quite literally. The ONLY possible moral reason for leaving
> Harry with the Dursleys is to save his life, PERIOD. Trying to create
> a certain kind of person through child abuse, or abuse of any kind, is
> utterly, totally, unforgivable vile."
>
> Jim Ferer wrote:
> Vile indeed, and illogical. There's no way to put a child through
> that kind of experience and expect a boy with the humility and the
> capacity to love at the other end. Quite the opposite, actually.
> Children of abuse are often abusers themselves, at least horribly
> mangled souls. Only Harry's special qualities enabled him to survive
> at all.
>
I think that AD is either the greatest fool or the greatest
manipulator ever. I don't believe for a second that he didn't know
what kind of people are the Dursleys. And that leads us to the
following options:
a) He trully didn't know and that makes him at least incompetent.
b) He knew but he believed that the Dursleys may behave themselves
and that makes him at least naive and finally,
c) He knew but he didn't care. Everything and anything in order to
protect his "asset" or "weapon" you name it for future use. In that
case he is a s*n of a b***h.
In any case AD took a big risk because he recreate the very same
conditions that made Tom Riddle to become Lord Voldermort and that is
an abusive, uncaring muggle foster family for little Harry.
Cheers,
Paul
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