[HPforGrownups] Re: new (?) thoughts about the Dursleys

Thu Jun 28 08:11:55 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 21565

 --- Eric Oppen <oppen at cnsinternet.com> ha scritto: 
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> Subject: Re: new (?) thoughts about the
Dursleys<BR>
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> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Melanie Brackney
<ilovbrian_99 at y...> wrote:<BR>
> > I never thought about it until now.
However, it did appear to me<BR>
> that they were trying to keep Harry from
Hogwarts..and acted like<BR>
> they had never heard of the place. Perhaps,
Dumbledore made no<BR>
> mention of Hogwarts in the letter.<BR>
> ><BR>
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> Doesn't Petunia, in one of her rants somewhere
say something<BR>
> like, "Lily got one of those letters, and
then went off to that<BR>
> school and she came home turning teapots into
mice -- my parents were<BR>
> so proud to have a witch in the family. BUt
I saw her for what she<BR>
> was -- a freak" (I can't look this up at the
moment) My take was that<BR>
> the Durselys took Harry in, and this is awful, to
beat out<BR>
> his "abnormality" out of him -- I get
the impression that Petunia was<BR>
> jealous of Lily and is quite bitter at the
wizarding world -- so she<BR>
> wanted to deprive HArry of his legacy as
revenge. I think they<BR>
> either hid or destroyed the letter, and hoped
that would be that. I<BR>
> really doubt they know about Mrs. Figg, they were
probably just happy<BR>
> to have a reliable (maybe even free) sitter, if
she's kind of wierd,<BR>
> smells like cabbages, and makes Harry
uncomfortable, all the better<BR>
> in thier opinion. My question is, if Mrs.
Figg is the right Figg,<BR>
> why didn't she ever let it slip to Harry OR tell
Dumbledore the kind<BR>
> of abuse HArry is suffering?<BR>
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> >Where are the other Potters?<BR>
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> And what happened to those O-so-supportive
Lily/Petunia parents?<BR>
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> Stephanie<BR>
 This is a really good question. I kind of think
that Petunia and Lily were<BR>
already on bad terms before Lily got The Letter, and
Petunia was not only<BR>
jealous of her sister's chance to study at Hogwarts,
but felt that this gave<BR>
her sister an undeserved high position in the
family. Could it be that she<BR>
was the Squib daughter of magical parents, and her
current attitude toward<BR>
the whole subject is a combination of jealousy and
sour grapes?<BR>
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Ah, so you had the same idea, the other way round!
Because I thought they might be stepsisters, but with
Lily being an adopted daughter.

I think that if they had known about Mrs. Figg, they'd
have kept Harry a 
million miles away from her...remember how they
reacted to anybody acting 
even slightly strangely? Why Mrs. Figg herself
didn't break cover around 
Harry (on a "this is our secret, little
Harry---you don't want your cousin 
Dudley to know this, now do you?" basis) is
something I want to know. Her

Just read my enourmously witty, brilliant etc.etc mail
of today about the Dursleys.(Won't give you a clue,
but read it all the same)

willingness to let the Dursleys mistreat Harry is bad
enough, but keeping up 
the mad-old-bat act even when it's just the two of
them is taking things a 
trifle far for my taste. 
 
Also, if the wizards knew what sort of mistreatment
Harry was getting, I 
would have thought that they could have leaned on
Vernon and Petunia good 
and hard. No matter _how_ the Dursleys felt
about Harry, or about wizards, 
I rather think that a little "friendly
visit" from some people from the 
wizarding world would have adjusted their attitude
pretty quick, like so:

You know what I suspect you of? You have copied this
(wonderful!!) scene from the Monty Pythons, when
Michael Palin and the other one do the mafiosi-sketch
with the general (But parachutes can catch fire,
general....)
LOL Susanna/pigwidgeon37

"Mr. Dursley? I'm Guido Breakbonelli from
the Ministry of Magic, and this 
is my assistant, Rubeus Hagrid. We want to
discuss this little nephew of 
yours. The one you're mistreating." 
"Yes, we know, it's your household.
However, this _is_ a rather 
accident-prone neighborhood...you know, people trip
over nothing at all and 
get their arms broken, people have something happen to
them that makes them 
spend the rest of their lives sitting on lily pads,
croaking and eating 
flies, people even have been known to have their
clothing disappear, right 
in the middle of important business meetings with
valued clients, right, 
Hagrid?" 
(Hagrid speaks for the first time) "I was
just thinking about the days when 
I played rugby. The sound of bones breaking, the
screams and squeals for 
mercy...I miss it so much!" 
"So we understand each other, _don't_ we, Mr.
Dursley? We're very 
superstitous at the Ministry. If anything bad
happens to your nephew, like 
being treated a lot worse than that oinker of a son of
yours, or being 
bullied by your son _or anybody else,_ we're going to
hold you responsible. 
Even if you aren't at fault. Even if you can _prove_
you aren't at fault. 
*cue music from _The Godfather_ movies* Consider
this an offer you can't 
refuse." 
 
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