Etiquette - Smart glasses with mead

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No: HPFGUIDX 142812

>bboyminn:

>The Dursleys were not required to drink, only to accept the glasses.
>I personally think if they had grasped the glasses out of the air 
and
>set them down on the coffee table, that would have been the end of 
it.
>But they tried to ignore the glasses, and the glasses became more
>insistent about fulfilling their task of getting the Dursleys to 
take
>them.

Orna:
I think that besides the humorous or rude aspect (depends on who 
reads it), there is some symbolic communication in this act. I 
thought that the whole essence of the Dursleys is to pretend magic 
doesn't exist, and illusion themselves that by behaving as if 
nothing like this is existing and by bullying and denigrating Harry, 
who represents magic existence – it won't exist, or more so – 
they`ll be able to vanish it. DD's behavior tells them exactly that: 
I exist, even if you ignore me, magic exists, and the more they will 
ignore it, the more insistent it will trouble them. That's why, IMO, 
the second that Vernon acknowledges the existence of the glasses (by 
shouting quite rudely), DD gets rid of them. And BTW, I don't think 
it was intimidation, which made them ignore the glasses, after all 
Vernon did ask about Sirius being dead, his leaving Harry a house. 
So it seems that not saying anything about the glasses, or accepting 
the drink had to do, more about actively denying the existence of 
magic, than their fear. 

I think it's important, because the biggest mistreatment of Harry 
IMHO was this continuing denial and hatred towards his very core 
existence.