Petunia knowing Dementors & James Potter's family

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 75351

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<kathrin.wagenmann at o...> wrote:

> When I first read the part about petunia knowing dementors I 
thought 
> that she probably knows them, because they "killed" her 
parents.that 
> is why she knows that they suck peoples soul.It is said somewhere 
in 
> the books that dementors were involved in the worst muggle killings 
> during the first war.
> did anyone of you think the same?could be possible,couldn`t it?

Hi

I think this is an interesting idea. It would certainly account for 
the mysterious lack of any family on Lily and Petunia's side. Maybe 
they all got killed at a family gathering of some sort - maybe even 
the Dementors were accompanied by Voldemort, and the killing was one 
of the three attacks made on James & Lily, and they only just got 
away in time with Harry. Petunia says she remembered because of 'what 
that boy said' - if this is what happened, there certainly would have 
been a lot of tearful explanation gone on between Petunia, Lily and 
James.

Here's another idea about James's side of the family, re post no 
75184. I think he'll turn out to be from another one of the rich 
wizard families who mainly went over to the dark side, apart from his 
mother and father. I think this common background was what formed an 
instant bond between him and Sirius. Also, it would account a lot for 
the arrogant way that both boys come across to Harry when he sees 
them in Snape's memory. 

When I read that scene, it appeared to me, as a Brit, that they were 
both prime examples of the archetypal rich, careless, privileged, 
clever, handsome, badly behaved, but oh-so charming public schoolboys 
that our system churns out so effectively. Think Hugh Grant with 
brains and attitude. 

OK, so they both learned some humility as they grew up, but I saw 
their behaviour in that scene as quite a giveaway. Probably Petunia 
feels additional bitterness because she knows that her sister married 
so much 'better' than she did, its the sort of thing she'd care about.

CW