It’s possible to sympathise with how Petunia (and any other character) must have felt while st
It’s possible to sympathise with how Petunia (and any other character) must have felt while still condemning the behaviour they display because of said feelings, and sympathising with those the behaviour hurts. Especially if those childhood or teenage feelings are what they’re using to justify unacceptable behaviour as an adult. Which Petunia did. She confirms all the way back in Philosopher’s Stone that her resentments over Lily are why she treats Harry in an abusive fashion. ‘How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was … I knew you’d be just as strange, just as -as - abnormal…’I know from experience how it feels when your younger sister has different needs that have to be specially catered for and require you to make allowances all the time, so I can sympathise with her childhood feelings, but Petunia is a child abuser who justifies her adulthood abuse because of those childhood feelings. And that’s not okay. -- source link
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