Lily, Petunia, Squibs, Muggles, et. al

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 82747

"Iggy McSnurd" <coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
Everyone seems to be missing something about how Petunia knows about 
the Dementors and such:
"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 heard -- 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

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Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;

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 her 
soon to be 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