DD at the Dursleys: Why do people dislike the scene?

[phoenixgod2000]

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Phoenixgod2000: My students are testing but I have to be quick. The 
little buggers can cheat at the drop of a hat :) 


> Pippin:

> What I saw in that HBP scene was confirmation that Dumbledore 
> was not in denial about the way the Dursleys treated Harry. He 
knew 
> what was going on. It was his choice and he is culpable * if he 
had a 
> better one.*

I refuse to believe that leaving Harry with the Dursleys was the 
best of all possible worlds for a wizard of Dumbledore's power, 
skill, and age.  It might have been the best for the Cinderfella 
story JKR wants to say, but I don't buy it in a world of magic on 
the level we've seen in the story.

 
> But let's get some perspective here. It appears the Dursleys are
> unable to harm Harry physically, although they've tried. He's
> been underfed, but not dangerously so. 

I would say letting Dudley chase him around and locking him in 
cupboard under the stairs should qualify as harming Harry physically.
 
> The most likely long-term effect of verbal abuse is said to be  
> an increased susceptibility to anxiety and depression.

the most long likely long term effect of persistent mental and 
emotional abuse from a very young age is to develop anti social 
tendencies--possibly even antisocial personality disorder.

Another words--Tom Riddle Jr. 

> But we're talking about DD. If it was a choice between an increased
> susceptibility to anxiety and depression or certain death at the 
hands 
> of a psychotic murderer, which would you choose for your child?

Something just occured to me.  If Dumbledore could go the Dursleys 
in book 6 and use magic on them to take them to task and intimidate 
them slightly and not break the wards, why couldn't he have done the 
same in Harry's younger years?  Is he so busy he couldn't pop in 
once a month to have Tea with Petunia and check on the fricken' 
savior of his darn world?  He could easily have insured that Harry 
was being well treated.

I may think even worse of DD now.