Petunia's Emotional Removal WAS Re: Harry as last DADA teacher?

Alia aliaware at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 00:32:16 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 100323

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gift_lady" <clr1971 at a...> 
wrote:

big snip (sorry!)

> I also haven't seen answers to a few things I'm thinking of. In POA 
> when Aunt Marge is visiting she insults Harry's mother with the 
> female dog reference. Petunia is sitting right there. Does she not 
> care that this woman is insulting her sister? We know from OotP why 
> the Dursley's agreed to take Harry in even though they hate 
> everything having to do with the wizarding world, but I would think 
> Petunia would hate having her sister described that way. Did Aunt 
> Marge forget that Petunia was Harry's mother's sister? Couldn't she 
> say Petunia was the same?

Honestly, I think Petunia was/is so removed from her late sister, 
since they've been estranged for so long.  So I didn't think she'd be 
insulted at all.  I mean, she's looking after her sister's only son, 
but look how she allows her husband and son to treat him.  And 
Petunia's a Dursley now, and she seems to hold all of their ideals--
well, she appears to, at least.

Alia






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