[HPforGrownups] Re: Tomboy Lily/Dursleys

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 59450




Sabrina wrote:

> And as far as we know Petunia is the only sister 
> Lily had. What if Petunia is Harry's godmother and she just never 
told him?
> Okay, now you say that Petunia hates Lily and has always hated her 
and 
> hadn't seen her for ages at the beginning of PS/SS, BUT: Couldn't 
it be that 
> her parents or perhaps a grandmother or somebody similar (who is 
dead by 
> now) could have badgered her into being the godmother? After the 
christening 
> she would still have severed all ties with Lily and her family 
until Harry 
> turned up at her doorstep.
> Which would then give a bit of a new spin as to why the Dursleys 
didn't give 
> Harry to an orphanage.


  Linda adds:

      This actually has cannon support. In the first chapter of SS/PS 
we are told that Petunia and Vernon know of Lily and James' son, so 
there has to have been some contact within the two years before Harry 
was left on their doorstep. For arguments sake I am including the 
extra year in case Petunia was just aware of the pregnancy, although 
she did know that the child was a boy and even what he was named. 
Somehow I doubt that Lily and James would have had an ultrasound done 
and called Petunia with the news they were having a boy so...

      This is making more and more sense to me as I type. Maybe the 
sisters weren't as estranged as we were led to believe. Hmmmmm...


    -Linda   

ME:  I can't buy this. Petunia's attitude towards her sister and their treatment of Harry is so extreme that they had to have been highly estranged.  But could Petunia have been baggered to being Harry's Godmother?  Possibly.  Only one problem. It takes two to play here. Could Lily have been baggered into LETTING Petunia be his Godmother.  This one I find very doubtful indeed. Although we have never seen James or Lily alive, I just have a very strong feeling that Lily was far too good and loving (well she DID sacrafice her life for Harry) a mother to have subjected him to having a Godmother like that!  As to Petunia knowing about Harry, there could well have been either family or even family friends who could have told her.  Also, I doubt there was absolutely no contact between the two.  Maybe not very friendly contact but there could have been some without going so far as to making her the Godmother!  Huggs Becky
       



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