HBP post DH look chapter 3

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

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

Pippin:
That *is* the point. The Gryffindors do have one glaring fault  and
that is their nasty habit of trying to put their supposed  inferiors
in their place. Of course Dumbledore doesn't believe in racial or
magical inferiority any more, at least he doesn't think he does...but
moral inferiority is another story.   
 

But much as we like to see the bad guys get what they deserve, it
really doesn't do, in canon, to bully your inferiors...even  moral
inferiors. You're probably not that much better than they are -- and
even if you were, the problem is, it's a lot easier to put people in
their place than to keep them there.

Pippin