WW Cultural bias re clothes and cupboard?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 123122


Pippin:

all we can really point to, besides the lack of love, which 
even DD couldn't do anything about, is the clothes and the 
cupboard. But would the wizards recognize those as 
mistreatment?
 
It's been a running gag throughout the series that the wizards 
have no idea how Muggle clothing is supposed to look. One of 
the funnier moments for me in GoF is when Mr. Crouch shows 
up at the QWC, every stitch painfully correct -- except that it's 
completely wrong for the occasion. The wizards don't know enough 
about Muggle clothing to realize that Harry isn't properly 
dressed.
 
Ditto for the cupboard. Where do the Slytherin kids sleep? In a 
windowless dungeon, for heavens sake. Arthur Weasley's office 
doesn't have a window either.  Bog-standard for wizards, it 
seems.
 
Would Dumbledore's watchers know that Muggle clothing isn't 
supposed to look like loose elephant skin and it's generally 
considered unhealthy for Muggle  kids to sleep in a windowless 
room? 


Alla:

I love your observations, Pippin, even when I completely disagree 
with you, because they are so interesting always.

It is an interesting argument, BUT it seems that Dumbledore himself 
clearly recognised at the end of OOP that Harry WAS wronged and 
Dumbledore acknowledges that he watched him closer than Harry could 
ever imagine.

So, whether all wizards recognise it as mistreatment or not, 
Dumbledore clearly does.

Just my opinion,

Alla