[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dursleys: the missing piece?/The Prank in DH/Responsibility for Sirius'

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 167380

sistermagpie wrote:
> Are you saying they're really fundamentalists the way C3PO 
> is "really" a black stereotype? Because there's nothing strange 
> about an aspirational, conservative middle-class person wanting 
> their family to be "normal." An artistic child might ultimately earn 
> a lot of money for his family, but that wouldn't necessarily stop a 
> family like the Dursleys from preferring him to be "normal" instead 
> of creative.

Bart:
Actually, I knew an extremely talented artist whose family wanted him to 
be "normal". He could have made a lot of money, but his family drummed 
into his head that being an artist was not an honorable way to make a 
living. On the other hand, they did not punish him for attempting to 
make art, and he continued to be a very talented (and, in his own 
circles, rather famous) artist. The Dursleys went much, much further.

Bart