Harry and the Dursleys

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 42898

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "purple_801999" <purple_801999 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have started to wonder, what with all of the speculaton on the 
> magic alluded to by Voldemort about Harry being protected while in 
> the care of his blood relatives, if the Dursleys know this. 

Hmm.. if they read Dumbledore's letter, they do know.

> And if they do know or if they ever find this out,do they hate 
Harry 
> enough to turn him over to his enemies? Sometimes I wonder if they 
> do. I know they do their best to make Harry as miserable as 
possible, 
> but to actual kill him?

I don't think they'd kill him. To look at how things have *changed* 
about them... First, Harry lives in a cupboard and has no rights 
except school, being alive and clothed. Mostly neglected and left to 
his own. Then *the* letter comes. Someone wants to contact Harry - 
from magical world. The Dursleys violate one basic human rights of 
Harry's -- he's not allowed to recieve his letter. Not until Hagrid 
comes to give it. Dursleys treat harry worse than a prisoner.
Second book- Dursleys are again doing something illegal - Trapping 
Hedwig - and locking Harry's things up as addition. Yet that is a bit 
less than the first... now he is more or less a prisoner.
Third book it's just neglect. Harry realises that in truth, he's 
better off on his own. He escapes the Dursley-prison. Perhaps he got 
the idea from Sirius' escape on TV...
Fourth- More liberties, a lot more, thanks to Sirius. This time no 
rules need to be broken for Harry to leave - although Dursleys are 
still reluctant.

I guess the development goes further. Sirius will come closer to 
Harry - perhaps even free. I've imagined two scenes for that: Harry 
knows nothing and Sirius surprises him - or that Harry visits Sirius 
in attempt to "free" him while Sirius awaits his trial in jail. It 
would result in them having a discussion and Sirius refusing to leave 
until trial because he promised to do so...
 
>  Uncle Vernon I know would probably have no problem in doing so, 
but 
> would Petunia willingly give up the only other blood relation she 
has 
> left besides her son and the last link to her sister no matter how 
> despised?
> 
> And speaking of Petunia and family I wonder if Voldemort reign of 
> terror included the killing of James and Lily's parents? It seems 
> strange that both sets of granparents are dead when James and Lily 
> are both still so young and may explain Petunia's hatred of Lily 
even 
> more.

Or they died of cancer Lily could not heal... Or it was *them* who 
died in a car-accident. An accident happened when they were taking 
Lily from Diagon Alley, that Petunia saw *outside* and only Lily 
survived and only Petunia ended up in Orphanage while Lily went to 
magical world, marrying James Potter.

Finwitch