[HPforGrownups] Re: Dursleys

[Philip Gonzales]

No: HPFGUIDX 17103

Good work! I forgot about that scene. Petunia obviously felt neglected when she was younger.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Margaret Dean 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Dursleys


  Philip Gonzales wrote:

  > Also, I always wondered if Petunia was jealous of her sister,
  > Lily. It could be for her looks, her smarts, or something else.

  I think it's made pretty clear in the hut-on-the-rock scene in
  PS/SS that this is indeed the case.


            "You =knew=?" said Harry.  "You =knew= I'm a --
        a wizard?"
            "Knew?" shrieked Aunt Petunia suddenly.  "=Knew!=
        Of course we knew!  How could you not be, my dratted
        sister being what she was?  Oh, she got a letter just
        like that and disappeared off to that -- that =school=
        -- and came home every vacation with her pockets full
        of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats.  I was the
        only one who saw her for what she was -- a freak!
        But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this
        and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in 
        the family!"
            She stopped to draw a deep breath and then went
        ranting on.  It seemed she had been wanting to say all
        this for years.


  Sounds like a full-blown case of sibling rivalry to me,
  especially the "Lily this and Lily that" part.


  --Margaret Dean
    <margdean at erols.com>

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