Dumbledore calls a spade a spade

[dittanymorgan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142924

As did many others, I quite enjoyed reading Prof Dumbledore telling 
the Dursleys precisely what he thought of their actions.  They have 
failed Dudley, creating a flawed human being, and the Headmaster is 
the only person who ever said so in such  unambiguous words.  Notes 
from the elementary school and from Smeltings were read through the 
lens of denial.  That the Headmaster cast his actions in the mold of 
politeness, while being insufferably impolite, is a quintessentially 
Victorian way of doing things. (My grandmother was born in 1894.  If 
she didn't like you, she was cooly {coldly} formal with you.)
So, to all of you who castigate the Head for bullying, I say, "Tosh.'

Namarië