Petunia (was Re: Petunia, New Headquarters, and Ron and Hermione (LONG))

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 119579


Hima (welcome, BTW) wrote:
(big snip)Is it just me, or does it seem like
> she is really, truly frightened when she hears that
> Voldy is back? 

> Juli: Of course she's afraid, LV is the person who
> killed her sister, she may not agree with her
> lifestyle and everything but Lily was still her sister
> and I bet she loved her. We don't really know but LV
> may have also killed her parents, so why wouldn't she
> be afraid that the person or *thinh* that killed her
> entire family was back.

Hima again: 
> >> Like she may have had a previous encounter with
> him?  I've been thinking and maybe Petunia DID have a
> previous encounter with LV. Maybe when he was looking
> for the Potters and since the (rat) Charm was already
> in place, he couldn't find them yet?  What if he went
> to the Evans' house, and demanded Petunia, and her
> parents to tell him where they were?  But maybe
> Dumbledore didn't tell the Evans' where they were
> going to be, because of this? And since Voldy may not
> have believed them, he killed Petunia's parents in 
> front of her.  Then turned on Petunia, and said the
> same thing, only she somehow *got out* of being AKed
> by Voldemort.  
> 
> Juli: Your theory just has a slight problem: The only
> person to ever survive an AK is Harry (Crouch!Moody in
> GoF Ch 14, The Unforgivable Curses: "Not nice," he
> said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no
> countercurse. There's no
> blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived
> it, and he's sitting right in
> front of me." refering to Harry), so if Petunia was
> sometime AK'd by LV, she wouldn't be here. 

Ginger:  I snipped the rest to keep from having to relabel it "very 
very long".

Hima and Juli, I think we may have something here.  We have often 
wondered what happened to Lily and Petunia's parents and why Petunia 
took Harry in.  

Perhaps this would explain it:  LV goes to the Evans home after the 
Potters are in GH, threatens them to get the hiding place and finds 
that they have no answer, as Hima suggested.  

Perhaps LV killed the parents to show Petunia his power, and then 
(instead of trying to AK her) tells her that if she doesn't give him 
the answers he wants that the same fate awaits her and/or Vernon and 
Dudley.  She would have been far willing to take in Harry to be 
pretected from LV, if this was part of the deal.

The only obvious flaw in this is that Petunia doesn't seem to be 
greiving in the beginning of PS/SS.  Maybe it would work with a 
different timeline.  Anyone?

Ginger, who hates being sick and is going back to bed