Identifying with Muggles - The Dursley and 'Terrifying' Abuse

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158232

> Pippin:
 
> He is, perhaps, being hostile and threatening for the same reason
> that, IMO, he allows Snape to be hostile and threatening -- because
> there are threatening wizards out there and the Dursleys,
> like the children at Hogwarts, need to be reminded that outside
> their fortress, it's going to be getting dark. 

a_svirn:
It is an incredibly lame explanation, one, moreover, doesn't reflect
well on his brainpower and moral qualities. There is quite a few
threatening muggles out there in the world, you know. It doesn't give
one (especially a teacher) free licence to be hostile and threatening.