Bad Writing? (was: JKR and the boys)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 163001

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mohammed" 
<mohammedkapadia at ...> wrote:
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> Lupinlore, DD was keeping the bigger picture in mind which is to
> defeat LV.  


Well, if that is DD's excuse, my reply is that he is a reprehensible 
old idiot.  Child abuse is never allowable, no matter what the 
political cause.  Not to mention that DD was taking an awful big risk 
with his "weapon." (If he was indeed thinking of Harry that way.  
These kinds of threads tend to inevitably lead to the weapon 
metaphor).h

If you take the Dursleys' abuse of Harry, DD could have easily 
stopped them but then what if they could throw Harry out of the house 
before he came of age? Harry would have ended up dead. LV cannot 
touch him at the Dursleys' place and the rest of the time Harry is 
either at the Burrow (short time almost each year) or Hogwarts where 
he is well protected.

> 
> Overall all these abuses have made Harry stronger over the years and
> will definately help him in his fight against LV.
> 
> 

Well, if that is the tack JKR takes, I would say that amounts to 
explicitly approving of child abuse.


Lupinlore