HBP post DH look chapter 3

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184325

Alla:
> > > 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:
> 
> 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. <snip>

Pippin:
That's not the point. I don't see myself acting the way Petunia did,
and I don't condone what she did. I am angry about it, or I would be,
if it was real. But I don't want to see her in pain because I already
am seeing it -- she's been in pain all the time, IMO, just like Sirius
was when he was mistreating Kreacher. 

Pippin