Vernon knowing Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 14782

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Starling" <starling823 at y...> wrote:
> jennifer.k at l... wrote:
> 
> > >   "I´m not paying for some crackpot old fool to teach him magic
> > >tricks!"
> > >
> > >These are Vernons words in the beginning of Philosophers Stone. 
How
> > >much does this tell abut his doings with Dumbledore? That he 
has, in
> > >fact, met him?
> 
> I think you might be reading into that too much.  Vernon's sitting 
in the
> middle of a hut in a large rock out to sea.  He has pretty much 
flipped at
> this point, driving all over Britain to escape *letters*.  He's 
cold, angry,
> hungry, and now some huge man with a pink umbrella has just 
appeared out of
> nowhere to tell him his nephew is going to have to go off to learn 
magic,
> only the one thing he hates most.
> Vernon doesn't seem to know much about magic other than what 
Petunia has
> told him about her sister.  I really doubt that he would have ever 
willingly
> been in any situation where he might have had to interact with
> those...those...wizards!  ::gasp!::  He's frightened and mad, and 
he lashes
> out.  I don't think "crackpot old fool" is a reflection on any 
single
> person, I think that's Vernon's prejudices talking.
> 

lots cut out, obviously...

Remmember in Ch. 1, Book 1. Dumbledore wrote a letter to Vernon 
explaining "everything." That's a lot for a muggle to swallow! I 
imagine that Vernon, muggle-y as he is, decided it was all poppycock -
 and that therefore, he who wrote it was a crackpot old fool.

Heather M., still jet-lagged upon her return from England, and yes, 
she DID visit King's Cross but was quite disappointed.