Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (LONG)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 151436

Alla:
> 
> Harry cannot stand Dursleys, that is understandable due to how they 
> treat him, IMO. But as I said above I find it perfectly reasonable 
> that Harry may at the same time want the love of those who treat him 
> horribly and it is canon that he does.

Pippin:
No, it's canon that he resents being deprived of it. Not quite the same
thing. But you're painting yourself into my corner here. If Harry, after
fifteen years of abuse, still craves Petunia's love, and presumably 
would respond if only she treated him with kindness and respect,
how can we possibly say that Kreacher wouldn't have responded to
Sirius?

With some degree of logic, that is, because obviously we can say
anything we want :)

And we can make Dumbledore's words mean anything we want, but
since he warned Sirius that Kreacher "could be dangerous to us"
even though presumably he himself was treating Kreacher with
kindness and respect, he obviously wasn't saying that Sirius was
betrayed solely because he wasn't kind. But Sirius's lack of compassion
made it difficult for him to see Kreacher as dangerous.  I think
that is something Harry would not have seen on his own.


One more question for you, Alla. Should Snape die in the next book,
can we expect you to keep silence about his flaws in order to respect
the feelings of all us poor broken-hearted Snape lovers? :)

Pippin