was Harry's rescue from Dursleys/now "too clean" Dursley's

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 73425

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, ash Leigh <ashtayne at y...> wrote:
>  --- Cindy <xpectopatronum at y...> wrote: 
> > JKR never spends so much time on a scene without it
> > being important.  The thing that I found extremely 
> > strange in the 'Advance Guard' chapter was certain 
> > comments made by Order members at the Dursleys. If
> > JKR wants you to remember something - she repeats it
> > because she means it, and it usually means something. 
> > A few Order members make comments about how the Dursley's 
> > house is "too clean", and "unnaturally clean".
> > I think that we are getting somewhere with this, but
> > slowly.
> 
> Me: Ash
> Yes Cindy, I too have been thinking about this line
> since I read the book. My first thought was Petunia is
> almost trying to cleanse herself of her "dirty" past
> connections, making herself clean, almost like she is
> trying to clean away the past? (I have also had
> thoughts of her being a squib or perhaps a witch who
> couldn't quite make the cut. 
> 
> ashleigh

Cindy again:

It keeps reminding me of that scene in Macbeth where Lady Macbeth
keeps washing herhands, it's quite freeky. What has Petunia done? Or
what does she feel so guilty about?
-Cindy