HBP post DH look chapter 3

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> > Alla:
> > 
> > Yeah, see to me no matter what backfired on them, it did not 
backfire 
> > nearly enough like ever to match what hungry and upset twelve year 
> > old was going through when they locked him up, no matter what 
> > backfired on them, it did not match eleven years in the cupboard.
> > 
> > I wanted them in pain, I wanted them to be just as helpless as Harry
>  was for once.
> 
> Pippin:
> For me, The Prince's Tale cancels out this reading. Petunia knows
> exactly how it feels to be a frightened, slighted child. I just wish
> she knew how it felt to be a happy, fulfilled adult.


Alla:

It cancelled what for you? Desire to see Petunia in pain? My reading 
does not exclude the fact that Petunia knows how it feels to be a 
frightened, slighted child. I fully see that she does know that indeed.

Or are you simply saying that you felt pity for Petunia after you saw 
her like that?

Not me, I am more angry at her now. The fact that she knows that and 
she still treated her nephew like that, well that makes me angry.

I suppose it is first and foremost the impossibility of identifying 
with Petunia's actions, ever. There is absolutely positively no way I 
would be able to treat my niece the way Petunia treated Harry and/or 
let herself be silent when her husband and child treated Harry the way 
they did.

Regardless of whether I would ever had a row with my niece's parents, 
**no matter** how serious that row would have been. That is a given, 
Pippin, please take me at my word on that. This is something I was 
trying to imagine, to relate to Petunia somehow, especially after book 
7, since I totally hear what you are saying about her being a miserable 
child, but I can't. 

But after all, I would not give Snape a pass in his treatment of Harry 
despite his past with James either. Nope, I find it more inexcusable, 
not less.

JMO,

Alla