Did Voldemort kill Petunia & Lily's parents?

meltowne meltowne at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 23 16:18:52 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 81374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "raps029" <raps29 at a...> wrote:


Ruth:

> 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.

I agree with this.  It also fits with them trying to keep Harry from 
being a wizard in the first place.  If he's not a wizards, then LV 
has no reason to kill him.  While Umbridge's dementors did attack 
Dudley, LV has made no attempts to harm Petunia or Dudley, so I don't 
think it's just the blood that matters to him.  If Harry was so 
importatnt as the last descendant of Godric Gryffindor, through his 
mother, then Petunia and Dudley would also be desendants - even if 
not a wizards himself, Dudley could have a wizard child, to continue 
the line.

Since Petunia is protecting Harry because she has a blood link, then 
we must assume that neither Petunia nor Lily was adopted, as some 
have suggested.  There's still something we're missing about the 
family - why were they so excited about Lily being a witch, and why 
did that make Petunia hate her?  In PS/SS she hadn't seen her sister 
in several years.





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