Petunia's Howler

[logic_alley]

No: HPFGUIDX 70906

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Missy" 
<missygallant2000 at y...> wrote:
> > At any rate, Petunia does appear to recognize what the howler is 
> (she
> > doesn't seem to need Harry's exposition), and is very reluctant 
to
> > open it (possibly given what Dumbledore told her last time?).
> 
> Very true- very true.  That is a possibility.  Or maybe there was 
> even more to the previous Howler.
> > 
> > As for why Harry doesn't recognize the voice...has he ever heard
> > Dumbledore truly furious before? Perhaps his voice was so 
distorted 
> by
> > anger that Harry didn't recognize it?
> > 
> > --kai
> 
> Again- something I hadn't thought of.  DD screaming isn't 
something 
> that normally happens.  And, depending on the kitchen, the Howler 
> might be echoing around the room.  (I know my grandma's kitchen 
echos 
> like a mountain side, but I have carpets and stuff, so no 
echoes.)  
> And any echoing would distort the voice.
> 
> Missy (who can admit when she's wrong)

I think we see a lot of clues that Petunia once knew a bit more 
about the WW than she has let on.   But, I was just rereading POA 
(as part of my little post-OOP, compulsive, 'can't let go and get 
back to my life' problem...) and when the news about Sirius Black, 
escaped murdered, comes on the television news, she has no special 
reaction to it at all.   She goes along with Uncle V's ranting and 
she's peering out the windows at the neighbors as usual, but she 
doesn't give a little shriek or any sign of special recognition when 
she firsts sees the story.   

You would think that if she had known James and Lily at that time, 
she would have had to have known Sirius too.   

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