The Dursleys

[rbrown at cp.tamu-commerce.edu]

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God we could whip a dead horse back to life in this chat
room! lol

JK Rowling is a genius.  Putting Harry with those horrible
muggles created for the reader an emotional bond with the
main character from the very beginning of the story and a
half a billion "flys" buying the book shows just how
brilliant the Dursleys' importance to the story was.

Literature is loaded with the theme of creating an
emotional bond for the reader early in the story and
successful works and most classics bear this truth. 

Take "Moby Dick" for example. In the beginning of the
story the main character has to spend the night in bed
with a harpooner who appears to be a cannibal thus leading
to the conclusion: "Better to sleep with a sober cannibal
than a drunk Christian."

It created sympathy and an emotional bond for the
protaganist from the start and so goes the canon of great
fiction. A hundred years from now, JK Rowling will be a
classic author in her own right just as she is a
billionaire today because of her genius.

Without the horrible Dursleys, I dare say that would not
have happened.

Analyze all you wish, but to quote Steven Hawking...
"I don't just want to know what God did, I want to know
what he was thinking."

Am I the only one who stops and thinks why did Rowling do
it this way and how bloody brilliant it was?

~bob