[HPforGrownups] Re: When Petunia met James

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 72057

darrin_burnett wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>darrin_burnett wrote:
>>
>>>And she might have known EXACTLY what role he was believed to 
>>>have had in Lily and James' deaths.
>>
>>She would have no way of knowing that.  When Dumbledore left her 
>>the note with baby Harry, he did not yet know of Sirius's alleged 
>>involvement, so he could not have told her about it.  There is no 
>>evidence of later contacts between Petunia and any wizards or 
>>witches.
> 
> I believe, without going back to the post, that the sentences before 
> the paragraph you quoted spoke about Petunia possibly being in the 
> know, which would indicate contact. 

Precisely.  And the only contact for which there is any evidence 
is the note left with Harry.

> Dumbledore also likely did know that Sirius was involved somehow, 
> because he knew that Sirius was the Secret-Keeper and did NOT know 
> that Sirius had switched it to Pettigrew. 

Except that he gave no indications of any suspicions against 
Sirius when Hagrid mentioned him, and said he was going back to 
him to return the bike.