OOP: :SPOILERS :Petunia

[Missy]

No: HPFGUIDX 63675

> > However, I definitely agree that JKR has left a lot of room here 
> for 
> > us to speculate about what ELSE Petunia might know, what else she 
> > might end up telling Harry, and . . . I do wonder if perhaps in 
> some 
> > cases magical inclinations might lay dormant & undetected for 
> > years . . . before being provoked by some horrible 
situation . . . ?
> 
> I love the Petunia scene at the beginning - yet another character 
we 
> thought was flat turns around having a lot more to them.  Petunia 
in 
> the first book explains that she was always very jelous of her 
> sister, and her parents thought it was really great to have a witch 
> in the family, while Petunia thought she was a freak.  Which is 
also 
> proof that Lily's family was Muggle.  
> 
> JKR hints that Petunia is trying to repress something really hard, 
> which may explain her obsession with cleanliness and trying to 
avoid 
> anything remotely out of the ordinary.  Lily being a witch and her 
> family being accepting to it would at least make Petunia know a lot 
> of things about the wizarding world.  One would assume that Lily 
> would have told lots of stories while being home during the summer 
in 
> her Hogwarts years.
> 
> Marta

I have many thoughts about Petunia.  How exactly did Lily and 
Petunia's parents die?  I've thought that perhaps LV killed them.  
I've also thought that maybe Petunia had a crush on one of the James' 
gang.  I've tried to stifle that thought, because it is so Young and 
the Restless.

There is certainly jealousy, but I've never been convinced it wasn't 
because she couldn't do magic, and she really wished she could.  That 
and the extra attention Lily got from her parents.

I've also wondered if she knew DD or she just read a note from him, 
and recognized the name.

Actually, there are so many possibilites it makes my brain hurt.