Dumbledore & Dursleys-What DD Knew

phoenixgod2000 jmrazo at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 29 23:09:32 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 123415


Snow:
> What is it again that Dumbledore subjected Harry to because Harry 
> shows no scars of the weary battle of abusiveness. If the abusiveness 
> that you are seeing is so apparent, why hasn't Harry shown any signs 
> of weakness from it? 

Regardless of whether or not Harry has transcended the limitations 
of his upbringing, it does not excuse the actions that put him in 
the situation in the first place.

If I throw you into a room with axe wielding maniac suspecting that 
you're a master martial artist and will survive the encounter, that 
doesn't mean that my actions were right.

Dumbledore abandoned Harry to people that none of us would want to 
know or live with. That is wrong regardless of Harry's mental 
resilience.

Snow:
> What do you want to see from Dumbledore, the man has already cried 
> (only time) as a product of what he has been made to put Harry 
> through. Dumbledore has already apologized for what he was made to 
> do. 

What do I want to see from DD? I want to see him pay restitution for
making decisions in his infinite wisdom that would have Harry's 
parents rolling in their graves.

I want him to take a time turner and go back to make a better 
decision now that he knows what Harry is going to go through. 

I want him to take away the memories of a wasted childhood. 

I want him to acknowledge that what he did wasn't a *tough* 
decision, it was a *wrong* decision.  

The great and wonderful DD crying isn't enough.

But DD is never going to do any of those things because he can't. So
if were HP I wouldn't want to see anything from DD. Not ever again.

Snow:
> Yes, Harry was seen to be healthy when he first entered Hogwarts 
> School of Witchcraft and Wizardly, and he was! Harry does not 
> display, even now after everything he has gone through, any 
> lasting affects from his so called abusive days with the Dursley's. 

Tom Riddle seemed fine when he went to Hogwarts too. He was so fine 
that he decided that all muggles had to die for what they did to him 
in the orphanage.  The only reason Harry doesn't make that decision 
is because Harry's the hero. He's made of stronger moral fiber than 
Riddle. But in a very real way DD *fails*. He creates a system 
which could have embittered Harry and caused the entire WW to be 
placed under the thumb of Voldemort.  

Dumbledore knows the history of Tom Riddle and he makes the exact 
same mistake with Harry. IMO, that makes DD an idiot who doesn't 
learn from history.  The fact that things don't blow up in his face 
worse than they do is a testament to Harry and no one else. 

Phoenixgod2000







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