DD's Dilemma

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126428


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bbkkyy55" <bbkkyy55 at y...> wrote:
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> Bonnie (bbkkyy55):
> 
> Certainly DD knew Harry was in the cupboard under the stairs, but 
> that in and of itself does not constitute an abusive situation.  It 
> could have been a cosy, clean, nice little place.  Harry was small, 
> maybe he liked it.  Didn't you ever play in a closet when you were 
> small, I did.  But did DD know the food was doled out rather 
> unfairly.  Did he know about the verbal abuse, yelling and other 
> deprivations?  It seems to me that only by being there on a daily 
> basis would you know that.  
> 
> I really don't think DD is all knowing, as is illustrated in OOTP.  
> He has his sources, but I don't think they know everything we as 
> readers know.  They don't live with Harry on a daily basis as we do.  
> Unless some believe DD has little cameras and microphones stashed 
> away all around and inside the Dursleys house. :) 
> 
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> 
> Maybe what I'm saying is, Is it possible for DD to know as much about 
> Harry's life as we do?  I say no.  Opposing views are welcome. :)
> 
> Bonnie (bbkkyy)

You may well be right, Bonnie.  If so, it would be VERY helpful to
have that explained to us.  At the moment, though, we do have DD's
statement about how "I have watched you more closely than you can have
imagined."  Does he mean just at Hogwarts?  Or are the Dursleys
included?  If so why was Mrs. Figg in place?  Just what DID Mrs. Figg
tell Dumbledore in her reports?  All of this is information that could
go a very long way toward polishing Dumbledore's image once again in
certain quarters -- or further demolishing it, as the case may be.


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