[HPforGrownups] Re: Why not BRIBE the Dursleys, for heavens sake?

[happydogue at aol.com]

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Hold it...where does it say that Vernon is "dumb as dirt."  He may be very good in the drill industry.  We don't really know what he does there but he has a good office and did it say somewhere a company car.

Just because he doesn't act rationally in a home situation doesn't mean that he is dumb.  Situations like this build up and people began to act stupidly.  Think of the child abusers who think they are acting for the child's own good.  If you asked them right out if it was OK to do some of the stuff they do they would say 'no.'  But somehow over time the parent builds an evil way of reacting to the smallest infraction of the child.

JMM