[HPforGrownups] Re: questions about HP (Evans?)

[Kagome Shikon Seeker]

No: HPFGUIDX 82657

Robert Shaw:

There is a very different group of possibilities which would also
explain Petunia's knowledge.

Suppose Petunia had a close encounter with the wizarding world when
she was younger.

Maybe marauders visited Lily one summer, but weren't very discreet.
Petunia can be very nosy.

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Kagome:

Well, my personal belief (and I know this is an odd one) is that Petunia has
untrained magical ability.  I know this may be an odd thing to believe, but
it stems from a line in OoP:

"Funny place," she (Tonks) said, "it's a bit ~too~ clean, d'you know what I
mean?  Bit unnatural."

That, combined with the fact that Petunia ~does~ remember what James told
Lily about the dementors and Azkaban, makes me believe that it's quite
possible that Petunia had gotten a letter for Hogwarts first (there's no
canon as to whether she's younger or older that I know of, I just suspect
from various things that she's older), but either didn't believe it was real
or had been afraid of it.  So perhaps she had ignored it, or ripped it up,
or whatever, and that had been taken by the magical world as a refusal.
Then the next year her sister got a letter, and Petunia was horrified to
learn that, after all, it was ~real~, and in her jealousy, she simply
convinced herself that she thought such stuff was 'nonsense' and/or 'evil'
in some manner.

That's the only thing that to ~me~ makes sense that she would have
remembered the things her sister had said after all those years, despite
supposedly 'hating' magic and anything to do with that.  Can we say
jealousy, anyone?

I just think she has some minor magical abilities she uses on occasion, and
doesn't necessarily know she's doing it.  And I think she subconsciously
knows about it, even though consciously she denies it.