[HPforGrownups] Re: Innocent Alby?

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 123012

>
> Tonks now:
> Harry knows his birthday because the Dursley's are not monsters.
> They are human beings that don't give Harry the same treatment as
> their own son, but they don't beat him, starve him, etc.  He feels
> like they do.  And we feel like they do because we are seeing the
> world through his eyes.  He gets some acknowledgement of his
> birthday. A hanger. A sock or something.   I am not saying that the
> Dursley's are wonderful people.  I am saying that they are not as
> terrible as everyone thinks that they are.  Harry hasn't had much in
> the way of material things and material things do not mean anything
> to him as a result. That is not a bad thing; in fact in some circles
> it is a very good thing.  Harry is alive and well, so he was not
> starved. Harry is not a fat, little indulged pig like Dudley, and
> that is a very good thing.
>
>
Tonks-op said:
><snip>And I
> think that there was a deal with the Dursley's that Harry would live
> in the Muggle world as a Muggle and that DD and his kind would stay
> away at least until the appointed hour.

Trekkiegrrrl:
But if there had been a deal, why was Hagrid then so surprised that noone 
had told Harry about his parents?

I don't think Dumbledore or anyone else could really imagine HOW Muggle 
those Muggles were. And how much they hated the WW. If they had known, they 
wouldn't have sent zillions of owls before sending Hagrid.

~Trekkie