If the abuse doesn't show - lots of kids are skinny - then as long as they don't fall down the stairs too many times and have too many bruises that show everything's okay.
It's hard enough to get schools to stop blatant bullying, and even then it's not successful. And the Dursleys were pretty darn careful to preserve the exterior.
I'm afraid that in the real world it would have been all too easy for the Dursleys to get away with far worse.
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blamebrampton) wrote2011-02-08 11:58 pm
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It's hard enough to get schools to stop blatant bullying, and even then it's not successful. And the Dursleys were pretty darn careful to preserve the exterior.
I'm afraid that in the real world it would have been all too easy for the Dursleys to get away with far worse.