Petunia doth protest overly much

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 104547

on 6/7/2004 12:39 PM, justcarol67 at justcarol67 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Someone on this list said that Vernon protests too much. I think
> Petunia does. IMO, she's not a witch and she can't be a Squib, but she
> knows more about the WW than most Muggles, and she's keeping that
> knowledge from Vernon as much as from Harry.

Petunia grew up with a witch sister!  In the holidays Lily came home and her
proud parents probably interrogated her (in the nicest sense) over the
dinnertable about her new life.

"So honey, what does that mean... you're top of the class in Charms?  What
do you actually do in Charms?"

"So when you say that he was sent to Azkaban, what happens to him, sweetie?
What's a Dementor?"

Petunia could have quite an extensive knowledge (for a muggle) just from
this sort of conversation.

I am still puzzling over the "Remember my last" in OotP though.  There was
some bargain struck between her and DD, no doubt.  We know she agreed to
keep Harry but what did DD agree to as his side of the bargain?  She
certainly seemed terrified of the agreement being broken!

I haven't really found any of the propositions advanced so far convincing.
I would quite like the 'Dudderkins is a wizard' theory if I didn't think
that DD would consider suppressing a child's magic potential to be deeply
unethical.

Jocelyn