I honestly don’t get this AT ALL – If the Dursleys care that much about appearances and are bothered about local gossip then they’re not going to let Harry wander around looking like that, surely?
I can only imagine what the neighborhood thinks. The adopted son looks like a street corner flasher and vagabond, the native born son throws rocks at small children. O_o
As the HP lexicon points out, the only seven o’clock news is the channel four news: which tends to be both very liberal and enlightened, and very serious. I rather see the Dursleys as viewers of the ITV news (think Fox news, but with approximately 25% more truths, Americans).
I always thought there was something fishy about ITV when I was in London. It seemed Fox Newsish to me. Now I know. The easy answer to this one, is well the Dursleys are poseurs afterall. They would like to be thought intelligent, so they watch the super duper serious news. Of course, Harry never makes an attempt to have normal conversations with the Dursleys, so we never know how smart or stupid they are.
Amidst the rage-filled tantrums, OOTP Harry occasionally manages to be quite perceptive: normally with regards to adults he'd previously revered and is now starting to see as decidedly less than perfect.
I'm thinking that was the Riddle part of him talking. Harry was back to being Dumbledore's stooge in HBP.
It’s a jungle out there in…um…middle-class suburban Surrey. Apparently.
Surrey... the badlands. It ranks up there with East L.A. and East N.Y. LOL
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:11 pm (UTC)I can only imagine what the neighborhood thinks. The adopted son looks like a street corner flasher and vagabond, the native born son throws rocks at small children. O_o
As the HP lexicon points out, the only seven o’clock news is the channel four news: which tends to be both very liberal and enlightened, and very serious. I rather see the Dursleys as viewers of the ITV news (think Fox news, but with approximately 25% more truths, Americans).
I always thought there was something fishy about ITV when I was in London. It seemed Fox Newsish to me. Now I know. The easy answer to this one, is well the Dursleys are poseurs afterall. They would like to be thought intelligent, so they watch the super duper serious news. Of course, Harry never makes an attempt to have normal conversations with the Dursleys, so we never know how smart or stupid they are.
Amidst the rage-filled tantrums, OOTP Harry occasionally manages to be quite perceptive: normally with regards to adults he'd previously revered and is now starting to see as decidedly less than perfect.
I'm thinking that was the Riddle part of him talking. Harry was back to being Dumbledore's stooge in HBP.
It’s a jungle out there in…um…middle-class suburban Surrey. Apparently.
Surrey... the badlands. It ranks up there with East L.A. and East N.Y. LOL