DD and Harry and Dursleys Re: Christian Forgiveness and Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 164354

Carol:
<SNIP of the whole post basically>
> (BTW, and I'm not defending the Dursleys, Harry didn't *live* in a
> broom cupboard. He only slept there from the time he was about five
> until just after his eleventh birthday.

Alla:

You are not defending Dursleys, okay. What is your point then by 
mentioning that he **only** slept there? What argument does it advance 
if any?

Isn't it horrible no matter how much time little child had to spend in  
there?



Carol:
 Nor do I see how the Dursleys
> could have kept him there for a month during the school year as SS/PS,
> with its fairytale atmosphere, suggests. The school authorities would
> have come to investigate. Just a sidenote of no importance to my main
> argument.)
><SNIP>

Alla:

Canon says that he spent a lot of time there and you are saying that he 
could not have, because school authorities would have grew worried?

If we were to dismiss some things due to fairytale atmosphere, I would 
say that school authorities or children services were way overdue to 
check on Harry and Dudley as well. Surely they would have seen the 
clothes Harry comes in in school, his general appearance , etc.

Surely Dudley's behaviour would have raised a bell in somebody else's 
mind at least?

It did not, because JKR would not spend time on things like that, but I 
certainly take Harry being confined to cupboard as true because canon 
says so, fairy tale atmopshere or not.

JMO,

Alla