Harry's summer in the 6th book

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 101038

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bowlwoman" <bowlwoman at y...> 
wrote:
> > vmonte responds:
> > 
> > Dudley relives a lost memory from his childhood through the 
> Dementor 
> > attack. I think that the Dementor that attacked Dudley made him 
> > remember something he saw as a baby. 
> > 
> > From OOTP (Page 30, U.S. version): "All dark," Dudley said 
> hoarsely, 
> > shuddering. "Everything dark. And then I heard....things. Inside 
m-
> my 
> > head..."
> > 
> > Petunia then responds in a way that makes it seem that she is 
> worried 
> > that her son may be losing his mind:
> > 
> > "What sort of things did you hear, popkin?" breathed aunt 
Petunia, 
> > very white-faced with tears in her eyes. 
> > 
> > But maybe Petunia was worried that Dudley might have remembered 
> > something that happened in the past. Something he should not have 
> > seen.
> > 
> > "But Dudley seemed in capable of saying. He shuddered again and 
> shook 
> > his large blond head, and despite the sense of numb dread that 
had 
> > settled on Harry since the arrival of the first owl, he felt a 
> > certain curiosity. Dementors caused a person to relive the worst 
> > moments of their life...What would spoiled, pampered, bullying 
> Dudley 
> > have been forced to hear?"
> > 
> > Petunia may have been threatened by Voldemort. She probably knows 
> him 
> > up close and personal, and not by listening in on her sister's 
> > conversations. Voldemort may have gotten to Petunia (when he was 
> > searching for the Potter's) before he reached word from wormtail. 
> He 
> > may have threatened Petunia or her son with a dementor. In fact 
> > Dudley's worst memory may be that he previously had an encounter 
> with 
> > a dementor as a baby! (I don't think that Dudley's worst fear was 
> > getting a pigtail.)
> 
> This is a great idea.  The only thing to wonder is when it 
happened.  
> VM would have 15 months between the hearing of the (partial) 
prophesy 
> and finding the child who fulfilled it.  Dudley was born only a few 
> months before Harry, so it must have been very shortly before the 
> attack at Godric's Hollow.
> 
> We know that Petunia had met James, because she mentions he told 
her 
> about the Dementors guarding Askaban.  Maybe James and Lily stopped 
> off to see Petunia when they were on the run and VM followed them 
> there?
> 
> bowlwoman

Susan now:
Ooh! that has great potential when linked up with Snow's "long lived" 
post about Lily, James and DD's protection spells.  Maybe Petunia had 
to be in on the whole family-blood thing for it to work.  Maybe if 
her parents were still alive, they'd have to be in on it as well.  
And need I say it?  Perhaps that's why not only James and Lily, but 
their parents are dead so young as well.  Perhaps even another 
connection between DD and Petunia.  Hmmm.
Opinions?