WW Cultural bias re clothes and cupboard?

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 123154


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?
<snip>  
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? 


Then 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.

Kemper now:
Dumbledore also keeps up with Muggle events.  He knew about Frank 
Bryce missing.  It seems as though he's at least done this for the 
past 13 years as of GF, monitoring for suspicious goings-on... like 
people disappearing which happened in LV's hay-day.  DD doesn't stand 
for dumdum, he probably picked up a thing or two from the news about 
Muggle culture if he wasn't aware of any prior to that Halloween.