Petunia's Secret

[ujs31415]

No: HPFGUIDX 110414

A guess:
Dudley's life is in danger. DD's pact is that he will protect
Dudley if Petunia lets Harry stay at Privet Drive. 


(snipped from caesian's post)
>OotP, A Peck of Owls
>"He's back," said Harry heavily.
>....
>"Back?" whispered Aunt Petunia.
>She was looking at Harry as she had never looked at him before. And
>all of the sudden, for the very first time in his life, Harry fully
>appreciated that Aunt Petunia was his mother's sister. ... Her large,
>pale eyes (so unlike her sister's) were not norrowed in dislike or
>anger; They were wide and fearful. ...
>"Yes," Harry said, talking directly to Aunt Petunia now. "He came back
>a month ago. I saw him."
>HER HAND FOUND DUDLEY'S MASSIVE LEATHER-CLAD SHOULDERS AND CLUTCHED
>THEM. 

(my caps). She didn't put her hand on her heart. She put them on 
Dudley's shoulders.

She dotes on him too much. Is it just bad parenting, or does she know
he is in mortal danger from (what?)...


(also snipped from caesian's post)
>16 November 2000 Dateline Harry Pottermania in Vancouver, with J.K.
>Rowling
>`I like torturing them,` said Rowling. `You should keep an eye on
>Dudley. It's probably too late for Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. I
>feel sorry for Dudley. I might joke about him, but I feel truly sorry
>for him because I see him as just as abused as Harry. Though, in
>possibly a less obvious way. What they are doing to him is inept,
>really. I think children recognize that. Poor Dudley. He's not being
>prepared for the world at all, in any reasonable or compassionate way,
>so I feel sorry for him. But there's something funny about him, also.
>The pig's tail was irresistible.`


Is it just that his parents have poor parenting skills or have they
not taken steps to lessen his danger? Will Dudley not survive the
series? Is that why Ms.JKR feels sorry for him?

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