Dursley Questions

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 5081

There are some questions I have regarding the Dursleys:

- What do they know about Voldemort?  Surely they would have asked 
questions when the Potters were killed and their house was blown to 
smithereens.  Do they understand who Voldemort was (is), and what his 
return might mean to Harry and his blood relations?

- What is the nature of the protection that living with blood 
relatives affords Harry?  Is it akin to having a Secret Keeper?  
Perhaps it is related to the protection that Harry received when his 
mother died to protect him.

- Does anyone in a position to know ever say explicitly that Lily was 
a muggle-born witch?  Could Petunia have been a squib in a wizard 
household instead?  Harry *assumes* that his grandparents were 
muggles, but do we know for sure?  

- When and how did Lily and Petunia's parents die? They must have 
been comparatively young (50s or 60s) when Harry was born.  Might 
they have been killed by Voldemort?  If so, could that have 
traumatized Petunia into rejecting "the wizarding world" completely?

Any thoughts?

-Jim Flanagan