Lily, Petunia, Squibs, Muggles, et. al

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No: HPFGUIDX 82804

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
Fred Waldrop wrote:
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".

Iggy McSnurd wrote: 
Ummm... I cited canon about where Petunia found out. What 
other "awful boy" could she have been referring to who might have 
told Lilly about the Dementors? 
<snip>
I don't think that JKR would be lying to her readers about how 
Petunia found out about the Dementors. For one thing, she doesn't 
really have any reason to.

Bookworm:

If Fred's idea about the dementors being LV's allies in the last war 
is true, it doesn't make sense that the Ministry would put them in 
charge of guarding the Death Eaters in Azkaban.  

However, Iggy, I read that scene with Petunia totally differently.  
I think she is lying through her teeth, and made the comment 
about "that awful boy" to cover-up something else.  "She looked 
quite appalled..."  "...she said jerkily."  "She seemed horribly 
flustered."  (OoP p31-32, US).  

Would JKR lie to her readers? No, but she will mislead them.  And in 
this case, it's not JKR possibly lying, it's Petunia.  JKR has 
indicated that if she wants information put out with a stamp of 
authority, she uses Dumbledore and Hermione.  

Nope, IMHO, Petunia is hiding a guilty secret.

Ravenclaw Bookworm