[HPforGrownups] Dudley. Was Re: Are we abusing the concept of "abuse?"

[Arynn Octavia]

No: HPFGUIDX 124726

Alla:
I am just not sure if I can call what they do " abuse" even in a very general sense of the world.

Maybe because to me is the intention is what counts the most and no 
matter how hard I try I cannot find anywhere in the books that 
Dursleys intend to harm Dudley. I mean, harm can come even from the 
best intentions, but I cannot call such person an abuser.

Arynn: 
A few years ago there was a mother who drowned her children. She was killing them so that the devil wouln't take them (according to her psychotic logic). This was done under the best intentions (to save their souls) but was it not abusive? According to your deffinition it wasn't but I disagree.  
 
Just because they think they are helping Dudley, dosn't mean it's not abuse. (If you've seen/read Steven King's Carrie, you can't deny that Carrie is abused by her mother, who thinks she is doing Carrie good.)


--Arynn Octavia (A Lupin Lover)
		
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