What Lily Thought of Petunia

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 22597

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> Hello everyone!  I'm having a nice day - just came from Central Park 
> and was reading SS/PS when I came across something that has probably 
> been discussed ad nauseum, but what the hell.
> 
> In chapter 1, we find out that the Dursleys have had nothing to do 
> with the Potters for years.  I was wondering about two things: 
first, 
> what did Lily think of the fact that her own sister wouldn't 
> communicate with her?  Was she angry?  Did she feel bad?  Or two, 
were 
> Lily and Petunia in contact all along?  Here is what made me think 
> that:
> 
> "'Er - Petunia, dear, - you haven't heard from your sister lately, 
> have you?'"
> 
> "As he [Vernon] had expected, Mrs. Dursley looked shocked and angry. 
 
> After all, they normally pretended she didn't have a sister." (p.7)
> 
> I wonder if she looked shocked and angry because she was worried 
that 
> Vernon had found out she was actually regularly in contact with her 
> sister.  I believe that Petunia is really a witch anyway and JKR, 
> IIRC, has said that we will learn some unexpected things about the 
> Dursleys.  I have a strong feeling that part of that unexpectedness 
is 
> that Petunia is a lot more involved in the wizarding world than 
> previously thought.
> 
> Hmmm... any thoughts?
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw, who likes what Rita wrote about Ravenclaw in 
> her last post!*****************************************

Time and again JKR lets drop an offhand remark to set up a significant 
development in a subsequent book.  IIRC, didn't JKR say somewhere that 
a character would come into magic later in life, or something to this 
effect?  You may have found that character.  It sounds persuasive to 
me, anyway.

Haggrid