[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: DH3, The Dursleys Departing

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 177217


On 2007, Sep 19, , at 07:14, Hagrid wrote:

>> 5.  After Dudley's encounter with the dementors ... something
>> life-changing happened to Dudley ... What do you think Dudley
>> saw, and how did it change him?
>
> Aussie:
> Dudley always had someone to support him - Dad, Mum or his gang. If
> Harry even looked like doing something against him, he'd run to his
> mummy ("He's doing it again"). Dudley saw himself without loving
> relatives or friends facing danger ... exactly what Harry saw every
> day of his life at the Dursleys until Hagrid brought the Happy 11th
> Birthday cake.

I just thought of something.  Maybe Dudley's greatest fear
is that he will somehow turn into Harry and be treated like
him by his parents and friends.  That would tend to give him
a bit of empathetic understanding of Harry.

Laura
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Laura Lynn Walsh    lwalsh at acsalaska.net
http://llwcontemplations.blogspot.com



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