OOP: Petunia

[Mark D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 63060

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sharai" <sharai67 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snosageau" <snosageau at h...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrea" <andrea at k...> 
wrote:
> > > ?
> > > ?
> > > ?
> > > ?
> > > ?
> > > ?
> > > ?
> Snosageau:
> > I'm afraid I have to disagree with your theory Andrea, although I 
> do like your thoughts about Petunia being raised in the wizarding 
> world and having much much more knowledge about it than she has 
> >ever let on. There has to be a reason to of WHY she is so 
> >respectful of DD. 
> > Would she really go against Vernon if she didn't know DD from a 
> > bar of soap?
> 
> Andrea:
> > > Aunt Petunia is not a muggle, not a squib, but a full-fledged 
> witch. Yes my friends, a witch. Did she go to Hogwarts? did she 
> stay through OWL's or NEWT? Dunno.
> 
> Snosageau:
>  I doubt Petunia went to Hogwarts. Referring to PS she tells of 
> Lily getting her letter, but possibly her bitterness about Lily's 
> powers is a result of the fact that she DIDN'T get one also? >>>>>

I had a brainstorm along the same lines. What if... Petunia (who I 
nelieve was the younger sister of Lily) went to Hogwart's but quit... 
Not because she failed the OWL's or NEWT's but from fear of the magic 
war. 

Being a muggle-born she saw herself as a target and perhaps after 
seeing a muggle massacre she had a nervous breakdown and quit magic, 
Being a Muggleborn. she had the option of swearing off magic which 
she did. 

She then sought out the mist un-magic muggle she could find, Vernon  
Dursley, and tried to disappear in anonimity.