[HPforGrownups] Re: An alternative bloodline therory

[Sandi Steinberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 33702

Alternate theory:

Suppose the Evans, unable to conceive a child, ADOPTED PETUNIA, before 
giving birth to Lily?  What if there is a whole family history that remains 
to be uncovered?  Perhaps Petunia is so angry and resentful because Lily is 
the "blood" child, the true heiress of the family legacy, and Harry is not 
her "blood" nephew--which is one reason for her unceasing abuse of him?  (Of 
course in Brontes's "Jane Eyre" Jane's relatives were biological ones, but 
so stingy and resentlful of having to raise her that they stuck her in the 
horrible charity school....)

Sometimes there are simpler hypotheses to propose...

(Personal Dumb question:  why was Lily 33?  Thanks.)

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Sandi Steinberg
Arlington, VA
USA