[HPforGrownups] Aunt Petunia & Hogwarts

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 88115

Diana L wrote:
>   I believe that if Voldemort had met or even knew about Petunia
>and her family, he would have killed them long before Harry ever
>came to live with them.  Judging by her reaction in the quote below,
>Petunia knows Voldemort is a very bad guy and I honestly can't see
>her throwing her own nephew to him to be murdered despite her long-
>repressed anger and jealousy toward her sister.  Petunia is awful -
>but not THAT awful.

You may well have put your finger firmly on the key to where Petunia's
coming from. It's worth wondering about _when_ and _how_ Petunia and Lily's
parents died. They were both alive when the girls were in school, but by the
time Harry was orphaned, Petunia was his only living close relative.
Happened very suddently, therefore.

I think it's quite possible that Death Eaters, if not Voldemort himself, did
find out about Lily's family and killed them, and that's precisely why
Petunia hates the WW so much and got so scared about learning that Voldemort
had returned.

Cheers

Ffred

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