[HPforGrownups] Re: Tomboy Lily/Dursleys

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59454

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Becky Walkden wrote:

> 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

I agree.  I can't see either Lily or Petunia being interested in making
Petunia Harry's godmother, given everything we have heard about their
relationship in the books.  Most likely, Petunia heard about Harry's birth
through a relative who was on better terms with Lily (but then where had
that relative gone by the time Harry was orphaned?) or a family friend.  
Or, Lily and James may have sent Petunia and Vernon a birth announcement
in the mail (or by owl -- wouldn't that tick off the Dursleys?).  There
doesn't need to have been any personal contact between the two sisters for
Petunia to know that Harry exists and what his name is.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"