[HPforGrownups] Re: DD at the Dursleys: Why do people dislike the scene?

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 157974

distaiyi:
> Even in the Gospels Jesus shows his human side, how can anyone expect
> more of Dumbledore. Wise, yes. Cunning, yes, obviously. Powerful, you
> betcha. But human? Really? Yep, and JKR showed us his humanity more
> and more as Harry gets older.
>
> Good lord, abuse JKR and Dumbldore for taking the very human action of
> defending an abused child...

Magpie:
Gotta say I don't remember scenes in the Bible where Jesus acted like a jerk 
with no particular results in mind.  This scene doesn't come across as a 
defense of an abused child to me.  Dumbledore's there to get something from 
them.  He engineered the situation in which the abuse occurred and did 
nothing about it while it was going on.  He shows up one day years 
afterwards and teases the Dursleys for ten minutes for his own amusement and 
that's the big defense of Harry?  He just seemed even more of a weirdo to 
me--funny how in the last book he described Harry's time at the Dursleys as 
simply making him "a little underfed" when he came to Hogwarts--that's when 
he's describing the results of his own actions.

Yup, I disliked this scene, perhaps especially even more after a chapter of 
"Even the Muggle Prime Minister is an idiot!"  I didn't get many laughs out 
of it, so I couldn't have a reaction where I just enjoyed it whether it was 
good or not.

-m