Dumbledore at the Dursleys'

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 142848

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> Bruce Alan Wilson:
> I do like this comparison.  You must remember that the Wizardling 
World is a much more conservative one than ours; this is not 
unsurprising given that wizards live much longer than Muggles  
Consider Dumbledore's age.  If you have ever read Jane Austen, the 
Bronte Sisters, Dickens, or other 19th C. authors you will see that in 
that era middle- and upper-class people had a fairly strict protocol 
about 'paying a call.'  

a_svirn:

If you think that Dumbledore conforms the conventions of 19th century 
protocol, you need to reread the aforementioned authors. Because he 
does not, not even close. 


Bruce Alan Wilson:
Really?  I don't have my books with me, but (from memory) what about the
sequence in 'Pride and Prejudice' when Lady Catherine comes to the Bennett
household to warn Lizzie off from Darcy?  She arrives unannounced and uninvited,
just as Dumbledore does, but Mrs. Bennett doesn't--really CAN'T refuse her
admission, for to do so would be even worse manners than Lady C.'s unannounced
visit.