I like this - pet theory time, or something. I've always wondered a bit how Harry could have turned out anything short of deranged if he had been treated as horribly as some people say he was (which is not to say that he was treated well, or anything resembling well. Just that it doesn't sound like Harry was locked into the cupboard and ignored for his whole childhood). Although that would certainly screw with his mind... that he would be treated badly for behaving well. Poor kid.
I do think he did get some amount of nurturing from the Dursleys as a baby and a toddler, at the very least.
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Date: 2004-10-11 02:15 pm (UTC)I do think he did get some amount of nurturing from the Dursleys as a baby and a toddler, at the very least.