Did Voldemort kill Petunia & Lily's parents?

[raps029]

No: HPFGUIDX 81342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" 
<rredordead at a...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > 
> > What do you all think?
> > 
>  
> I think Petunia's and Lily's parents are dead. Because Petunia is 
> Lily's last blood relative. If the Evans' were still alive, 
> Dumbledore could have given Baby Harry to them.
> 
> And I also think, it is likely, that Voldemort or the Death Eaters 
> killed them.  
> Hickengruendler

I've been developing a theory about Petunia's feelings toward Harry.  
I also think that Voldemort killed Harry's grandparents, possibly 
before Harry was born.  Petunia blamed Lily and WW for the death of 
her parents and kept herself from feeling the pain of loss by 
refusing to have anything to do them.  She channels all of her 
emotions into taking care of her husband and son and their home.

After taking Harry in as a baby, she knows that he is under a death 
threat and so acts mean to Harry to keep herself from caring about 
him. If she doesn't care about him, it won't hurt so much when he's 
killed by Voldemort.

That's one of the things I really liked about book 5, that our view 
of the Dursleys has changed away from that of traditional English 
children's literature.  In books 1-4 the Dursleys reminded me of the 
horrible families in Roald Dahl's books, but in book 5 I could start 
to see some motivation for Petunia's treatment of Harry.  I can't 
wait to find out more in the last two books.

Ruth P