Petunia (suggestion why she hates magic

[tania_schr]

No: HPFGUIDX 74475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David Peele" <dspeele at y...> 
wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am new here. But I do have an opinion on why 
petunia 
> hates magic like she does. In OOTP and perhaps in each of the 
> previous books JKR describes Petunia having horse teeth. What I 
> wonder is could the reason she hates magic because perhaps when 
she 
> was growing up Lilly or perhaps james may have played tricks on 
her 
> or something. And because of that could that be the reason she 
hates 
> magic and stuff concerning the the wizarding world. I know about 
the 
> statute about underage sorcery. It may be nothing. But in 
everybook 
> JKR describes Petunia with horsey teeth. And O dpmt think JKR 
would 
> keep describing petunia that way unless there is something to it. 
May 
> be way off base here but what do you think?
> 
> dspeele at y...

   Interesting.  Maybe it could be that when Lily was little (even 
before she knew she was a witch), she - like Harry - had 
some "magical" things happen and something bad happened to Petunia 
as a result (kind-of like when Harry accidently enclosed Dudley in 
the snake exhibit at the zoo).  

  I have always thought that Petunia was jealous of Lily.  I think 
if as a kid my brother had found out he had magic powers and got to 
go to a special school like Hogwarts and I didn't, I would have been 
pretty jealous.  Don't think I would have reacted like Petunia, but 
people react to things differently.  In Petunia's case, I think her 
bad feelings about not being included turned into hatred for the 
magical world.

Tania