Lily, Petunia, Squibs, Muggles, et. al

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 82693

"Woodward, Deirdre" <dwoodward at t...> wrote:
 Hi all:
  
I've been reading all these posts wondering/debating how Petunia 
became so knowledgeable about the wizarding world.
 
It seems to me that she would have heard all about the wizarding 
world during the seven years Lily was at Hogwarts and Petunia was 
attending whatever school she went to.  In letters, over Christmas 
break and during summer break, Lily would have told Petunia and the 
rest of her family all kinds of things about the wizarding world. 
Even in Petunia didn't want to hear it, some of it would have sunk in.
  
Also, Voldemort came to power eleven years before Harry was born 
(PS/SS).  If James and Lily were only in their early to mid 20s when 
Harry was born, then Voldemort was a powerful scary force while Lily 
was still in school -- hence, Petunia would have heard about him.
 
Deirdre
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Hell all, Fred Waldrop here;

I have been following these threads for a while, and finally thought 
I'd chime in.
I do not see Petunia having heard about dementors from Lily, James or 
any of the other school kids (before Harry came to stay at her house).
As LV said in GoF, pg 651 paperback, US, "The dementors will join 
us... they are our natural allies..." 
So, if the dementors are LV "natral allies", and DD seems to think 
they will go over to LV as soon as he ask them to, it only seems 
logical that they were his followers in the "first war". And if they 
were LV allies, they would not have been guarding Azkaban, unless 
Lily and James got married and waited many years to have Harry.
But if she did not hear about the dementors from her sister or 
brother-in-law, I can only assume that JKR has been leading us astray 
with lies. And I really do not want to believe that.

Fred