Squib or muggle - who's a late bloomer?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89641

rolshan wrote:
> Re pact, I will reiterate my theory that Petunia's
> secret (one the exposure of which she fears enough to
> keep Harry, one which explains her knowledge of the
> magical world as being much more intimate than can be
> otherwise explained) is that she was formerly married
> to a wizard...perhaps one killed by Vmort, perhaps
> someone we know -- Snape? OK very farfetched but...
> 
> We know that muggles sometimes unknowingly marry
> wizards or witches (both Voldemort and Seamus come
> from unions like this, and Seamus' statement that his
> dad did not know his mom was a witch until after the
> wedding is stresse in the movie). We know Petunia was
> not unattractive (physically) as Harry remarks how
> much she looked like Lily (except for the eyes). 
><snip>


But would Snape, a Slytherin, marry a Muggle? Not to mention that he
seems to have joined the DEs while still in his teens before going
over to Dumbledore at about age twenty. If Petunia married a wizard,
which I doubt, it wouldn't have been Snape--and with the (admittedly
limited) knowledge of the WW that she acquired from her sister and
"that awful boy" (James), she wouldn't have *unknowingly* married a
wizard. In fact, she probably turned to Vernon Dursley as the most
unwizardlike young man of her acquaintance.

I don't doubt that Petunia has a secret, but I think it has to do with
the murder of her parents by DEs--or worse, their being kissed by
dementors. (I hope it isn't the second option, but she does know about
dementors and, as I've argued elsewhere, she isn't a squib.)

Carol