Another Dursley Question

[Fred Waldrop <fredwaldrop@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52340

Oryomai:
> > There are several instances in which the Dursleys send Harry 
>gifts.  The one that comes to mind is the tissue and I think that 
>they also gave Harry one of Vernon's old socks. I am wondering how 
>the Dursleys got the gifts to Hogarts in the first place.  They 
>wouldn't use Owl Post because they don't like magic and even if they 
>didn't feel that way, they don't even have an Owl with which to send 
>anything.  They can't use regular mail because as Hermione 
>explained, any Muggle who looks at Hogwarts will just see an 
>abandoned house.  
> > 
> > So, how do they get the gifts to him?  
> > 

 bboy_mn adds:

>As someone already pointed out, Hedwig brings Harry's gifts from the
>Dursley's. 

>I personally believe that there are a lot of muggle interfaces into
>the Magic world, if for no other reason than a matter of convenience.
>I think Gringotts has several muggle front companies that it uses to
>transfer money between the wizard and muggle worlds, and to make
>muggle world investments. You know those goblins, if they can see a
>way to make a 'buck'; they'll do it; magic or muggle.


Hello all;

I have a differant theory than the Dursleys sending things to Harry 
at Hogwats than most "Muggles" would.

I do not remember anywhere in Sorcerer's Stone (SS) where anyone says 
that all of Lily's and Petunia family (The Evans) were muggles. Plus, 
The Dursleys were good friends with Mrs. Figgs, she was the one who 
always "babysitted" Harry when the Dursleys took Dudley out. And we 
know she, Mrs. Figgs, was a witch. And she was a powerful witch 
apparently at that.

I say this because in Goblet of Fire (GoF), after Harry finishes the 
tournament, Dumbledore tells Sirius to go tell "...Arabella  Figg ... 
and the rest of the old group", which means she ran around with the 
likes of Dumbledore and such (Mrs Figg that is). 
So, how did the Dursleys know Mrs. Figgs? Was she an "Old Family 
Friend" of the Evans?

Plus, In SS, page 52 (USA), Hagrid said (to Mr. Dursley): "I'd like 
to see a great muggle like you stop him." (not to Mrs Dursley, so, 
could she be a squib maybe?)

Then, page 53 (Aunt Petunia's clearing of her conscience?) 
says: "Knew!... Knew! Of course we knew! How could you not be, my 
dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a letter just like 
that and disappeared off to that - that school - and came home every 
vacation...... I was the only one who saw her for what she was - a 
freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily 
that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!" 
"Then she met that Potter at school and they left and got married and 
had you, and I knew you would be just as strange, just as - as - 
abnormal - and then, if you please, she went and got herself blown up 
and we got landed with you!"

No where in this did "Aunt Petunia" say that her family was or was 
not witchs or wizards. She says that "she was the only one to see 
Lily for what she was, a freak". Why didn't the rest of her family 
see this? 

Once more, I'm not sure, but as far as I can see, maybe Harry is 
more "pure Blood" than we are thinking.

Fred Waldrop