Lily, Sev and Toony (was Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 2, The Vanishing Glass

[geoff_bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187788

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

Zfshiruba: 
I think her main motivation for her treatment is still petty transfered jealousy, but I think one of her self-justifications would be that he was/is a threat to her family.

Geoff:
I feel there's something of an illogicality here.

If, as you suggest, Petunia justifies her treatment by thinking that 
Harry's presence is a threat to the family, how does abusing him, 
starving him, neglecting him and demeaning him make him any 
less of a threat?