a few musings on SS/PS

[tara diane]

No: HPFGUIDX 27827

i started reading SS for the third time last
night, and had a few questions i thought i'd put
forward to the group...

do you think we'll ever know what was in the
letter that dumbledore left for the dursley's the
night they dropped harry off?  the reason i was
wondering is because i've always thought it
strange that the dursley's didn't just put harry
up for adoption or drop him off at an orphanage. 
i mean, if she hated her sister so much to the
point that she pretended she didn't even have
one, why the willingness to raise her nephew when
it would of been much easier and much less of a
disruption to their perfect little lives to just
drop him on another doorstep?  was there a threat
from dumbledore in the letter about doing just
that?  something like "we'll be watching" or
whatever?

on a similar note, if she pretended she didn't
even have a sister, how did they know about harry
to begin with?  did lily still hold out for some
kind of a relationship to the point that she sent
letters updating the dursley's on their lives? 
and if the potters had sent a letter, i picture
petunia burning it rather than actually taking
the time to read it.  since harry had no other
living relatives at age 1, can't we assume
petunia didn't hear it from her mom or any other
potter?  so how did they find out the potters had
a son named harry?

the other thing i noticed was a mention about
arabella figg's house smelling like cabbage...if
i recall correctly, harry's polyjuice potion was
described as smelling like overcooked cabbage,
and the inside of the apothecary on diagon alley
smelled like cabbage as well.  so was that our
first clue that mrs. figg was magical?  

cheers! 
tara, who's not sure what's worse:  the wait for
the movie, or the wait for it to come out on
DVD/VHS...i mean, how am i supposed to hold down
a job when i'm at the movie theatre everyday? ;-)

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