What don't we expected from the Dursleys?

[aja_1991]

No: HPFGUIDX 46326

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Liz" <cureluv88 at h...> wrote:
> Here is a quote from that list of things JKR has said about book 
five 
> that is on many website:
> 
> "The Dursleys are in the next book, and there's stuff coming with 
> them that people might not expect."
> 
> There's been a lot of talk in HPFGU semi-recently about the idea 
that 
> Petunia or Dudley could be a witch/wizard.  That's only one idea of 
> something unexpected.  We should try to brainstorm some other 
> theories.  I have none of my own at the moment; it's late and I 
need 
> to go to bed.  But I wanted to see if anyone else had come up with 
> something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lizbot

My thought on this was always that Uncle Vernon loses his job and the 
Dursleys suddenly can't buy Dudley everything he wants, nor send him 
to Smeltings, etc.  Suddenly, they're poor.  Suddenly, Dudley gets an 
idea (economically, anyway) of what Harry's lived like since he was a 
year old.  Maybe Petunia gets a job and can't spy on neighbors all 
day anymore.  

The big flaw with this is that if the *house* they live in is 
critical to the protection of Harry that Voldemort referred to, and 
they have to sell the house... hmmm... what's the exchange rate of a 
galleon to a pound again?  Maybe Harry & Co have to recover a 
treasure in an Egyptian pyramid to save #4 Privet Drive from 
foreclosure!

"Aja"