Innocent Alby?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 122954


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, happydogue at a... wrote:
> I realize in all that this is just a story but...I always wondered 
why social services of some type didn't step in.  I realize that 
there were no outer signs of abuse such as bruises or broken bones 
but -- teachers must have questioned the fact that one child in the 
family has everything and the other doesn't even have clothing that 
fits and broken glasses.

Tonks here:
Good heavens! Harry is not an abused child. He is clean, has a place 
to sleep, has food, isn't beaten, even gets some toys and clothing. 
Nothing fancy grant you, hand-me downs. But since when is hand-me 
downs abuse?? He lives like a normal kid did during the depression. 
I have seen abused children. I have worked with PS. Even when a 
child lives in the most abusive homes that you can think of PS 
rarely takes the kid out of the home, they send the parents to 
therapy. We see Harry homelife through the eyes of a child. He is 
not treated like a king, but the Dursley's are not the most 
terriable people in the world. Please understand that I am not 
condoning them. I am surprised at the number of people that seem to 
equate the Dursley's with the lowest form of humanity. Even the 
Dursley's don't deserve that.

Haven't we all when growning up thought that our parents were unfair 
in some way?  It is very normal for kids to wish for the *good* 
parents to come along and take them away. But when they grow up and 
hear what type of home other kids lived in they realize how good 
they really had it. I think that something like that might happen to 
Harry when he discovered just what a terrible homelife Snape might 
have had. There are no perfect parents, some are just a whole lot 
worse than others. 

Tonks_op