[HPforGrownups] Re: Protection-Abuse / Patron-Client (was:re:Blood protection/ Dumbledore and Harry)

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 158552

Betsy Hp:
But since the Dursleys neither beat nor starved Harry, they don't
manage to rank, IMO. There needs to be bruising, fainting, etc., to
make it into the pantheon for me. Harry doesn't even manage an
emotional breakdown because the Dursleys don't love him. If the
Dursleys are to rank, Harry needs to bleed. And he doesn't.


Lynda:

So I take it Betsy, that the references to Harry being locked in his room
into which bowls of soup are pushed through the door-flap and Harry always
staying out of the reach of his uncle's grasp/fist do not signify abuse to
you either?  Because I tend to think that the narrator was not lying to us
in the first instance and that Harry probably has learned from experience to
stay out of Vernon's reach...

Lynda


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