OoP: Howler

[jlastra]

No: HPFGUIDX 61655



> "flutterbyhex" wrote:


> > The howler said "remember my last Petunia". I am taking this to 


> mean 


> > that this is not the first howler Petunia has received and that 


> > Dumbledore has sent at least one other one in the past. Any 


> thoughts 


> > on what the other howler was about? Was Petunia thinking of 


> > abandoning Harry before?


> -Debbie






Did anyone else place significance on the fact that Dumbledore 
addresses Petunia as "Petunia" and NOT as "Mrs. Dursley"?  Dumbledore 
frequently corrects his students when they refer to Snape rather than 
Prof. Snape.  It occurred to me that Dumbledore would not refer to a 
relative stranger by using her first name.  But Dumbledore does refer 
to former students by their first names (Molly, Arthur, Sirius, etc.). 
I could be reading WAY to much into this, but it could indicate that 
Petunia was a former student at Hogwarts.




Joan