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No: HPFGUIDX 148272

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rkdas at ...> 
wrote:
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> Could you enlighten me as to the disaster that was DD's speech at 
the 
> end of OOTP? If you have a post or something to point me to, that 
> would be fine too.
> Thanks!


Hmmm.  Well, to make a long, long, long story very short, many 
people found Dumbledore's speech in OOTP to be cold and 
unsympathetic, particularly when he was talking about Harry and the 
Dursleys.  He seemed to brusquely cut Harry off when Harry protested 
that Petunia didn't love him, and to generally have the 
attitude "You're alive kid, so you don't have any right to complain 
about anything."  Worse, perhaps, he gave the impression that he was 
fully aware of the situation at the Dursleys and even expected it, 
and that he either did not care or actually approved.

This all was the subject of several extremely 
loooooooooooooooooooong and viciously contested threads having to do 
with Dumbledore's attitudes and plans, the Dursleys, the nature of 
the abuse they inflicted on Harry, etc.  The threads were pretty 
much closed off when JKR clarified all this with Dumbledore's 
confrontation with the Dursleys -- a confrontation that in some ways 
seemed to repeal part of his speech in OOTP.


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