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

[hickengruendler]

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> Steven1965aaa:
> 
> I don't see "teasing".  Contrast the Dursleys' behavior with Snape 
at 
> Spinner's end who invites Bella and Narci in, invites them to sit,  
> and offers them a drink even though they show up unannounced and 
> uninvited.  The Dursleys did none of that so DD did it for them.  
And 
> unlike Bella and Narci, DD was actually invited into their home - 
by 
> Harry who is after all a member of their family.  Its true that the 
> glasses wound up hitting them in the head but as DD said it would 
have 
> been better manners to drink it.  I don't see offering someone a 
drink 
> as "teasing" (although the couch thing was a little rough around 
the 
> edges).

Hickengruendler:

Not that I want to excuse the Dursleys, and I already said, that I 
don't have any problems with this scene. But at least Snape knows 
Narcissa and Bellatrix. Dumbledore probably was a total starnger to 
them, at the very least to Vernon. And given his comment "You must be 
Petunia", I don't think they met either, so they undoubtly had some 
correspondence. I want to see you, if you would invite a stranger in, 
who rings at your door in the middle of the night.
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