[HPforGrownups] Aunt Petunia (was Re: Theoretical boundaries)

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 120382

> imamommy wrote:
> > Aunt Petunia's behavior .....<snip> could she be a witch who
> > *refused* to learn magic?  
> >
> > (snip quote from the World Book Day Chat)
> > 
> > According to this, Petunia is a muggle, but is it possible that she 
> > *chose* to be a muggle?  Could she have been born into a 
> > part-wizarding family and decided not to go to Hogwarts? 
> What is the 
> > "more" to her? <snip>
> 
> 
> Ms. Luna here:
> 
> I find this theory very interesting.  It would explain why 
> the Dursleys are trying so hard to be perceived as "normal", 
> why their house is so abnormally clean, why their son is so 
> abnormally spoiled...Petunia is seriously overcompensating 
> for being a witch!  It would also explain their 
> overindulgence of Duddums...they/she wants to keep him calm 
> so, if he were magical, magic would not accidently seep out 
> if he were upset. 
> This puts a new and more interesting twist on the Dursleys.   I truly 
> hope you are correct in this imamommy....I love it when story 
> lines spin 
> in new directions.   

Vivamus:
I, too, like this.  In addition to what you have said here, it also puts a
more believable basis on her knowledge of the dementors and Azkaban.  Given
her almost hysterical effort to suppress, repress and ignore any connection
with the magical world, the thought that she would even retain that bit of
information for all those years suggests she had a much deeper connection
with the WW than might first appear.

Here is the question this begs for me, though:  If Petunia is a witch who
has chosen to be a muggle, does VERNON know?   Can you imagine the furor at
that revelation?

Vivamus, who finds the concept of Petunia doing accidental magic in front of
her son particularly giggle-worthy