Awful Boy

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arcticalopex - Message 83777
 
> On page 32 where Aunt Petunia talks about the awful boy who told 
> Lily about the Dementors, I was wondering whom people thought that 
> awful boy was. I know many people assume it was James Potter, 


"Doriane" Message 83789

> I don't think she was referring to James either. The expression 
>she used : "that awful boy", doesn't strike me as being one she 
>would use to talk about her brother-in-law. In my idea, she would 
>just say something like " *he* ", and everyone would know who she's 
>talking about.


"K":

SS/Ch 4
"Then she met that Potter at school and they left and got married 
and had you..."

Petunia has mentioned James before and she referred to him as 
Potter. I do believe Petunia remembers the name of this boy. Petunia 
(JKR) just isn't telling us. I think for the most part we are just 
to assume it is James.


"Doriane"
> Moreover, "that awful boy" makes me feel like she's talking about 
> someone *whose name she doesn't remember*.
<snip> 
> So who would it be ? One obvious answer comes to my mind : James's 
> shadow, his almost-brother that went everywhere with him, Sirius ! 

"K":

I don't believe "that awful boy" is James either. I'm not sure if 
James would have taken Sirius with him when and if he went to visit 
Lily. I also can't see Petunia referring to the handsome boy Sirius 
as awful. Now Snape is another matter <g>. I could definitely 
believe Petunia would think of Snape in that way.


"Doriane" 
> Another possibility, much less easy to explain, would be Snape. He 
> was sure "awful". But how did Petunia get to meet Snape, I can't 
> figure out. Maybe Snape came to see Lily during the summer (hello 
> to you, Lily-Severus shippers) ? And when she rejected him, he 
>took revenge on her sister ?

"K":

Yes. It was Snape. At least IMO it was. But I'm not a Lily-Severus 
shipper and I don't believe that is why Snape was there. Not as some 
love-struck boy for Lily.

How would Snape have taken revenge? 


"Doriane" 
> Oh, and by the way, IIRC we are *assuming* that the girl "that 
>awful boy" was talking to was Lily, right ? The text doesn't say so 
> explicitely, right ? So...

"K":

If not Lily than who? Another sister? Just curious...