Oop: Spoilers - Petunia's kitchen

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No: HPFGUIDX 63002

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kenyonkrish2" <
kenyonkrish2 at y...> wrote:

> It's a technique to absolve onself, to Pilate-like wash not only 
> one's hands, but one's entire house. Maybe, just maybe, it suggests 
> that she harbors some guilt in Lily's and James's deaths. Maybe that 
> adds to the blood magic, mentioned at the end of OotP, of Lily's 
> death *and Petunia taking in Harry,* perhaps because she had blood on 
> her hands, not merely in her veins. 

ooooh, i really like this!  i know that JKR has said in the past that the Dursleys 
would eventually have a more expanded role in the books, and particularly 
now that we "officially" know about the blood magic, i doubt we've seen the 
last of Petunia.  is she really as one-dimensional as she's seemed over the 
course of the first four books?  it seems as though we're now getting glimpses 
of what's really going on in Petunia's well-ordered head, and i wonder what 
else we'll see of her in the future?  what exactly was it that made her turn 
away from Lily and the WW so dramatically?  how could two sisters, beyond 
one having magical ability that the other does not, be at such opposite ends of 
the personality spectrum?  i've assumed in the past that her marriage to a 
person as obtuse as Vernon was part of her forcing herself away from Lily, 
giving her a means to forget her death, etc.  wonder if there's more where this 
came from, or if we're gonig to hear more about it in 6 and 7??