Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP - DD's Perspecitve

[whirledgirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 151392

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Steve/bboyminn:
> Percisely the point I'm trying to make. I think we must ask whether
> Harry wants life to 'go on' because of what Dumbledore said and the
> perspective he added, or whether it was inspite of Dumbledore's
> effort. I think Dumbledore very much help Harry find the right path to
> resolve his grief over the events and over Sirius. Delay or hollow
> meaningless platitudes, in my opinion, would have only heightened and
> warped Harry's grief process.


"whirledgirl" <blink_883 at hotmail.com>:

Something that has been reiterated throughout all the books so far 
is that our choices allow our character to grow and develop. It 
seems to me that ultimately Harry's choice not to dwell on or waste 
undue energy by hating the Dursleys for their treatment of him will 
prove pivotal in book 7, just as this, Harry's capacity for love, 
has been important so far. 

Perhaps I'm way off, yet it does seem important that at any time 
during his childhood, Harry could have become hostile towards the 
Dursley's - but didn't. His childhood was as bad, if not slightly 
worse (for the Dursley's were his actual family, let's not forget, 
as opposed to the carers in the orphanage Riddle was in!) than 
Voldemort's. Harry didn't know his parents died trying to save him, 
and had loved him to that extent, for a major part of his childhood. 
Quite honestly I believe that with or without Dumbledore, Harry 
would have found the 'right' path again, and would have thawn out as 
it were. 

"whirledgirl" <blink_883 at hotmail.com>