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Twinkles wasn’t just indulging and flattering Harry to make the boy like him back, though manipulation was a part of his calculations. Yes, it served Twinkles well that the Boy-Who-Was-to-Die should be reckless, impulsive, driven by his emotions, unreflective, blindly trusting in his mentor while bristling with hostility at any other authority figure or attempt to assert authority.
But the uncalculated part was, in indulging Harry Albus was indulging his own guilty conscience. He knew he’d treated Harry abominably—in consigning him to the Dursleys, in making him the WW’s (unmerited) celebrity, and most of all in his secret scheme to have the boy suicide as soon as he came of age. And Twinkles’ notion of compensating for all that was to give the child extra sweeties and let him stay up past bedtime. Every day for six years.
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Twinkles wasn’t just indulging and flattering Harry to make the boy like him back, though manipulation was a part of his calculations. Yes, it served Twinkles well that the Boy-Who-Was-to-Die should be reckless, impulsive, driven by his emotions, unreflective, blindly trusting in his mentor while bristling with hostility at any other authority figure or attempt to assert authority.
But the uncalculated part was, in indulging Harry Albus was indulging his own guilty conscience. He knew he’d treated Harry abominably—in consigning him to the Dursleys, in making him the WW’s (unmerited) celebrity, and most of all in his secret scheme to have the boy suicide as soon as he came of age. And Twinkles’ notion of compensating for all that was to give the child extra sweeties and let him stay up past bedtime. Every day for six years.
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