OotP: Petunia

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No: HPFGUIDX 64028

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> I had always thought that if Petunia and their parents were muggles,
> combined with her jealousy over her sister, she wouldn't have 
wanted to
> learn all that much about the wizarding world. She always came 
across as
> hating everything and anything to do with magic and the magical 
world so
> strongly,  that I can't picture her learning things like who the 
Dementors
> are and what their role is in the wizard world - unless she had 
been bought
> up in it.
> 
> Michael
> http://chance.slashcity.net/

See I always thought some of the rules about using magic out of 
school did not apply when Lily went to Hogwarts, didn't Petunia 
mention in PS/SS that Lily use to come home turning tea cups into 
frogs, or something like that? Or does that rule only apply in front 
of Muggle families the students live with, but then what about those 
families proud to have a wizard or witch in the family are those 
students, like Harry, not allowed to do their magic work in their 
houses? 

That is why I thought one time they could, so Lily talked, and talked 
about her school and even with seething and glaring Petunia would 
pick up a few things here and there such as who Dumbledore was, and 
what the Dementors could do, I am sure that must have been taught in 
one of Lily's DADA classes. So maybe the parents weren't squibs but 
the rules banning underage magic out of school did not exist either, 
it is possible.