Dumbledore at the Dursleys'

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 142851


> 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.
>

a_svirn:
What kind of example is this? Lady Catharine manners are appalling 
and Mrs. Bennett is universally regarded as a very vulgar person, 
both designing and encroaching.  Besides, you yourself say that Lady 
Catharine's manners are bad, so how does it follow, that Dumbledore 
is well-mannered?