[HPforGrownups] Etiquette WAS Re: polite Dumbledore?

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 142711

Lealess wrote:
> The reason this argument doesn't hold water for me is that the
> correspondence is all one-sided.  It isn't as if the Dursleys were
> asking for Dumbledore's interference or his blessings.  They didn't
> want to be part of the wizarding world, full stop.  


Bruce Alan Wilson:
Then they should have refused to keep Harry.  They could have sent him to an orphanage.  Aunt Petunia knows enough about the WW to have contacted someone and say, "We can't take him."  They agreed to keep him; that is a contract, one which they have not (fully) kept.  DD has a right to exact some sort of redress for their not having fully upheld their end of the bargain.  Given the powers he can summon, being forced to put up with DD's company for an hour or so is fairly benign.  When he and Harry leave, the Dursleys have not been harmed, and they have been given several things to think about, especially Aunt Petunia who,
IMHO, as much as Uncle Vernon may bluster and shout, really wears the pants in that family.