HBP post DH look chapter 3

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Ok, now that is a shock for me. As some of you know I am not a reader 
who was, is or ever will be to spare a drop of sympathy for Dursleys. 
Not ever.  Ok, must stop, because rant about Dursleys is really not 
what I want to write about here. Must stop.

So, maybe some of you remembered, maybe not, but when we did not have 
DH yet, I highly highly enjoyed Will and Won't. This chapter to me 
delivered a necessary punch of very satisfactory humiliation of 
Dursleys that I was waiting for five books. I wanted a payback for 
their treatment of Harry and I got it.

Oh boy, I am rereading this chapter now and nothing feels that way 
anymore. I think it is because after DH everything that Dumbledore did 
to Harry feels so much worse to me than what Dursleys ever did. Again, 
this is not to excuse Dursleys, please see above, I am not that reader.

But Dumbledore talking about rudeness? Dumbledore talking about 
Dursleys not treating him as a son, when he was treating him as a 
weapon to be killed?

Oy, Dumbledore you are hypocrite, me thinks.

So anyways, I am just wondering now what was the purpose of this 
chapter again?

I mean, I get that we needed to see Dumbledore's injury, but what was 
the purpose of scene with Dursleys theme wise, because I really am not 
sure anymore. I mean, yes there is that matter of Kreacher's ownership, 
but was there something else about Dursleys we needed to hear?

Because really carmic justice as delivered by Dumbledore of all people 
really paled to me after book 7.

JMO,

Alla