about those Evans girls' names

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 13518

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> I mentioned that Lily and Petunia's names were both flowers, 
> Malfoy's mother's name is ALSO a flower 

Pansy Parkinson's name is also a flower, Poppy Pomfrey's name is 
also a flower, Lavender Brown's name is also a flower (a little 
flower which gave its name to a color), there are probably others 
named after flowers whom I don't recall just now.

I think that Petunia and Narcissa are both blonde and thin and 
snotty. Petunia named for being Petulant or at least Petty, Narcissa 
named for being Narcissistic (an argument against my theory that she 
loves her evil husband and her pet of a son). 

We were told that Narcissa would be attractive except for her facial 
expression as if she smelled dung. I think Petunia is supposed to 
would be attractive if it weren't for her snoopy long neck and long 
nose. I could easily believe that Petunia and Narcissa were sisters
IF I could believe that Petunia is a Pureblood witch -- I CANNOT 
believe that Lucius Malfoy would marry a Muggle, Muggleborn, or 
Halfblood. 

Lily has dark-red hair, not blonde, and a sweet personality (the 
sweet personality is my opinion, not proven by canon). Perhaps she 
isn't really related to Petunia. 

Could Petunia have been a Squib who was placed with a Muggle family 
because having a Squib offspring was such a disgrace to a proud 
Pureblood family? A Muggle family named Evans, who somehow already 
knew enough about the wizarding world to be thrilled when they found 
out that their real daughter was a witch? If Petunia had confused 
memories that, when she was two or three or four years old, her real 
parents had given her away for not being magic, that would go a long 
way to explain her hatred of magic.