Lily, Petunia, Squibs, Muggles, et. al

[katiecannon2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 82737

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
> "How d'you know that?" he asked her, astonished.
> 
> Aunt Petunia looked quite appalled with herself.  She glanced at 
Uncle
> Vernon in fearful apology, then lowered her hand slightly to reveal 
her
> horsy teeth.
> 
> "I hear -- that awful boy -- telling *her* about them -- years 
ago," she
> said jerkily.
> 
> 
>  (OotP, ch two, p. 31-32 US ed.)
> 
> 
> Case closed, so far as I'm concerned.  She remembered James (who 
she hated,
> and may have also been secretly infatuated with... which may be 
where some
> of her problem stems... but I digress.) discussing it with Lilly.
> 
> 
> Just my two centaurs worth.
> 
> Iggy McSnurd
> the Prankster

I think this is one of those times where the speaker didn't get their 
full thought out.  We are supposed to assume "that awful boy" means 
James.  My personal suspicion is that it was Snape...

--kc, unlurking for a change