What about everything prior to the Philosophers stone? Why did they treat Harry like an outcast then?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Harry was causing the same kind of trouble off-screen, as the pattern continues in multiple movies, making them view him as a cursed child for a reason

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I haven't seen the movies or read the books in a while - do we actually know what kind of trouble he caused?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Only under stress. He was in the school roof because dudley and his friends hunted him down. Also, they sent a dog after him and laugh, thex starve him, they made him their maid- They aren't the tiniest bit afraid of him before the books started. They didn't want him and hated that dumbledore forced them to have him. That's it.

by lulawhite 2 days ago

You're just making up stuff, you can't make up something that isn't canon to prove your point.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Playing devil's advocate, he isn't making things up he is just assuming that harry was using his untrained magical abilities like we see him do on screen. Their is no proof as the movies don't show this perspective but it's possible he was causing trouble with or without magic off screen leading them to resent Harry and treat him poorly on screen.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

... But parts of his childhood is mentioned in the book. You make an assumption this big and say 'save to assume' if it differes this much from the book.

by lulawhite 2 days ago

The Dursleys treated Harry like a disease because Aunt Petunia was jealous of the fact that her sister Lily was a witch and she wasn't; she decided everything magical (including Harry) was morally wrong because it was the only way she could stand fact that she couldn't do the amazing things that Lily could. Harry was an unrealistically well-adjusted and tolerant child given the amount of abuse he received from the Dursleys throughout his life - yes he caused problems with his magic, but that was only after years of suffering the Dursleys' mistreatment without complaint.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I can't agree as harry was doing things unintentionally due to the treatment he received from the dursleys before realizing he was a wizard They went outta their way to treat harry like garbage and even when harry has come back from hogwarts, they still treated him like garbage. The person he inflated was another aunt who went outta her way to insult harry parents and took shots at harry while harry was essentially being told to suck it up and take it. I can't see any negatives of harry's behaviour as he was neglected, emotionally and verbally abused, and treated like a burden.

by schmidttravon 2 days ago

All of the Dursley's abuse was approved and cosigned by Dumbledore. The Dursley's got forced at gunpoint to raise a dangerous magical child, can't really blame them.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Harry wasn't a dangerous child. WTF. They were forced to raised a baby that wasn't theirs and thex didn't want. That in itself is horror. People like to down play how horrible this is, but harry wasn't dangerous. And if he were, they would've been afraid of him, but they weren't even the tiniest bit afraid of harry.

by lulawhite 2 days ago

This reads like you saw the movies but didn't read the books. In the books harry sometimes thinks about his childhood and it is very obvious that they aren't afraid of harry. They hate that dumbledore forces them to have him around. I mean... being forced to raise a baby that isn't yours and you don't want is absolut horrible, but Harry is abusing them as a baby. Yes, there are magic things happening but almost always connected to extrem emotions. Harry being on the roof of the school because dudley and his friends hunted him for fun. The glass vanishing was something shocking to harry and dudley- not something they are somewhat used too. Harry didn't have a single friend at that point in time. It is explictly mentioned that Dudley threatened kids if they were nice to harry. Harry had no one. They also weren't the tiniest bit afraid of harry. They let the dog chase him for fun. They used him as a maid. They starved him. They hated him for being there. Nothing else.

by lulawhite 2 days ago

There's actually a part in the books and a cut scene from the movies where Dudley tells him that he doesn't think he's worthless and shakes his hand like a man. He grew to appreciate Harry. Petunia was always mad at him because she only saw her sister that died that night, everytime she looked at him and every time people felt bad, it was for him and never for her. (This was also a cut scene from the movies) Vernon saw him as trouble because Vernon hated magic and everything that came with it. Anybody like Harry was a troublemaker or a rabble-rouser to him.

by Weird_Survey2066 2 days ago