[HPforGrownups] Re: Tomboy Lily/Dursleys

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59475

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, fridwulfa wrote:

> 
> Patricia wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
> 
> Me (Izaskun):
> Well, I don't know, I think Lilly and James were polite people, maybe the
> just sent a card announcing that their baby-boy Harry was born. 

Exactly.  That would be the "birth announcement" I mentioned.  By
"personal contact" I meant face-to-face interaction or verbal contact as
with a telephone.  I do think you would need to be willing to at least
talk to someone to become their child's godparent, but talking is not
necessary just to find out that they *have* a child.

----
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"