OoP: Howler

[watcher1012003]

No: HPFGUIDX 62030

I was on the train and went - O MY GOD - I bet Lilly was not the only 
sister at HW - have thought all along - she was not as good as her 
sister and was very jealous of her sisters talents - she married a 
man who could not stand the mere thought of it all.....this was one 
of those points in this book started to make a lot of sense.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, alex fox <trinity61us at y...> 
wrote:
> That is an extremely interesting point!!!! I have been thinking 
along those same lines. I wonder about Petunia more than ever now. 
She almost seemed ..Well.. not resigned to it , but almost like she 
knew what was going on. Hmm.....Squib ? Ex student?
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> Alex Fox
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> jlastra <jlastra at y...> wrote:
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> > "flutterbyhex" wrote:
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> > > The howler said "remember my last Petunia". I am taking this to 
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> > mean 
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> > > that this is not the first howler Petunia has received and that 
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> > > Dumbledore has sent at least one other one in the past. Any 
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> > thoughts 
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> > > on what the other howler was about? Was Petunia thinking of 
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> > > abandoning Harry before?
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> > -Debbie
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> 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.
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> Joan
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