DD's dilemma (was: Hogwarts Teachers - Lockhart)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126318


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> I really, really hope we're not going to go off on another 
fruitless
> round of squabbling over whether child abuse is a Very Bad Thing.  
We
> all agree on that.  The question is whether what Harry had to put 
up
> with was child abuse or just really bad parenting.  
> 
> As I said before, I think that its clear that Harry was not
> frightened of the Dursleys pre-PS/SS and the way he demands his
> letters from Uncle Vernon doesn't indicate to me that he was 
cowering
> in terror from him.  Harry is wary not to give them a reason to 
send
> him to his closet and he certainly doesn't like them but he was not
> an abused child.
> 

Well, with respect, I think that is a totally indefensible 
position.  Sorry, but being locked in a closet and denied food DOES 
constitute child abuse.

Lupinlore
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