The Dursleys WAS Re: single parents in HP

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55451

Pip:
> Petunia does seem to have a sense of relationship to Harry. Her 
> nephew is fed, clothed, kept safe, educated. She just doesn't seem 
> to be able to love him.
> 
> But like Snape, however much she doesn't love him, she has never 
> wanted him *dead*.
> 
> That's just what Harry thinks. ;-)

That's right - she does keep Harry alive. Marge, Vernon and Dudley, 
however, might well be disappointed for Harry to have had so many 
excellent possibilities to die he missed.

Perhaps 'the Dursleys' in further concept, means those who were 
_born_ as Dursleys! Petunia married a Dursley but she's an Evans by 
birth, just like Harry's mother...

Quite right, *she's* the one who's terrified by magic, and she does 
try to protect both her son and nephew from it - and Dudley even with 
her own life.

Vernon isn't afraid of magic or he wouldn't have *dared* to do 
anything to Harry, much like as with *Sirius* - threat. All Vernon 
knows/believes/must accept of magic is that Petunia gets upset about 
it. However, someone - with a reputation of being an escaped 
*murderer* and being Harry's _godfather_ of all things... Now 
*that's* something to be worried about. I don't know if Vernon 
believed in magic until Dudley got the pig-tail... not really. Like 
that wizards are freaks who let in as little as mafia, and do 
*tricks* - tricks that have a decent, logical Muggle explanation...

-- Finwitch