[HPforGrownups] Petunia's knowledge?

[Thren]

No: HPFGUIDX 83304

tiggersong wrote:

>I assume Petunia is the one who actually empties the bedroom trash 
>cans into the big one in back of the house.  So, has she been reading 
>them?  She did seem ...well informed about the WW.  Possibly more 
>recently informed than she "should" be.
>  
>
And me (Thren):

Y'know... I wonder why I never thought of that. :) She might have known 
about the Dementors before, but if they hadn't been part of Voldie's 
troupe before (assuming they would have been if they'd been around), 
where did they come from, and was it in time for her to know about it 
from James? I think it's more likely she was reading the Prophet and 
just didn't want Vernon to know, so blamed it on James (why not Lily?).

Also, how does someone in a Muggle household (especially *Petunia's* 
household) get rid of newspapers that involve moving pictures and news 
of a whole other world? Perhaps Harry uses them to line Hedwigs's cage 
(bird droppings would stop *me* from picking through it), but what about 
other households? You can't just horde them forever. Hmm. Stray issues 
of the Prophet must be a big gap in their Secrecy security, unless they 
have something like a collection to recycle. Or perhaps they go poof 
after a while, but that doesn't really explain how Sirius kept hold of a 
clipping for so long. Er. Rambling...