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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 158003

> Magpie:
> This is a total tangent, though.  The question was, for people who 
> didn't like the scene, why?  I answered that it did nothing for me, 
> that I got nothing out of Dumbledore showing up and teasing the 
> Dursleys for fifteen minutes or whatever, and that it didn't give 
me 
> any satisfaction as being a great scene of justice.  So to me it 
was 
> just watching more magical teasing. 

Alla:

Actually, I would probably agree that it did not come off to me as 
Dumbledore **protecting Harry**. Um, too little, too late, but it 
certainly come off to me as saving Dumbledore from being erm... 
choose your own word here.

He comes off to me in this scene as not knowing the details of what 
Harry went through, which is of course a bit naive, but to me is much 
better than dismissing Harry being "a little underfed" as you 
mentioned earlier.

Basically I love this scene because it sort of saves Dumbledore for 
me and of course the more humiliation Dursleys go through, I will 
only cheer up.


 
> Magpie:
><SNIP> Also, I rarely forget reading 
> these books that I'm a Muggle, so I'm always going to identify with 
> the Muggles to a point in any scene.  I don't like this kind of 
> thing, so I don't like the scene.
<SNIP>


Alla:

Now, **that** I find to be a fascinating statement. What I hear you 
saying is that you indentify with Dursleys only **because** they are 
Muggles? Is that right?

I am ashamed to be a Muggle when I read about Muggles like them :)

I am amazed that the mere fact of Dursleys being Muggles can make you 
sympathise with them. It is a genuine amazement, nothing more.

JMO,

Alla