Aunt Petunia (was Re: Theoretical boundaries)

[barbara_mbowen]

No: HPFGUIDX 120410


Marmelade Mom snipping away:
> > 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.

Add to this JKR's assertion on her website that DD and Aunt Petunia had had 
correspondence *before* baby Harry was dropped on her door.  I can think of 
only two possibilities:  that DD wrote to a reluctant witch Petunia to encourage 
her to join the WW, or that DD wrote to her to explain why a bunch of bad 
wizards killed her (and Lily's ) parents.  Both could have happened.  And 
someone on this list once theorized that Petunia goes around whispering 
cleaning charms like "scourgify!" whenever Dudley and Vernon aren't 
looking.....

I like Petunia as a reluctant witch very much!

Marmelade's mom

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