OoP: Petunia, expelled?

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 64831

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fro6662002" <dveddds at a...> 
wrote:
> I'm not so sure about the 'expelled' theory. I tend to lean towards 
> the idea that she was indeed at Hogwarts at some point, but that it 
> was a world which she hated and wanted out of. Furthermore, I think 
> that this idea resolves the issue of the 'pact' between Dumbledore 
> and Petunia, insofar as 'What was in it for Petunia?'. My idea on 
> that being that Dudley was also born destined for the Wizarding 
> World, the world which Petunia despised. I feel that Petunia's side 
> of the deal was that in exchange for taking in Harry, Dumbledore 
had 
> to guarantee that Dudley, though destined, would never enter that 
> World.
> 
> I also think that Petunia has some residual magical powers. Hear me 
> out. OotP (The Advance Guard) Tonks comments twice on 
the 'unnatural' 
> cleanliness of Petunia's house. In itself, a fairly, innocuous 
> remark. However the repetion seems to be drawing the reader's 
> attention to this. More importantly is the repeated use throughout 
> the book of the spell 'Scourgify'(cleaning spell) as though JK 
wishes 
> to draw the reader's attention to that also. Scourgify, I would 
> anticipate is an elementary level spell along the lines of 
Alohamora 
> or Wingardium Leviosa, which if so would have been learnt in years 
1 
> or 2. Does Petunia use 'Scourgify'?
> 
> One further point is the girl laughing at the scrawny boy trying to 
> mount a bucking broomstick (Seen and Unforeseen - Harry's 
Occlumented 
> vision of Snape's childhood). Who is the girl? I'm taking this to 
be 
> Lily, as Harry's visions of Lily seem also to feature Snape. Is 
this 
> Lily playing with Snape as a young child? Did Petunia also play 
with 
> Snape as a young child?

I don't think the girl watching Snape in his memory was Lily at all.  
Considering how she treated James when he was torturing Snape, I 
don't think she would have laughed at him in a mean way.  And there 
are still definite debates over whether or not Snape was muggle, 
pureblood or a combo.  And as Lily was a muggle, she wouldn't have 
had contact with flying brooms and such as a child.

Tamara