What's in it for Petunia?

[snapesmate]

No: HPFGUIDX 93102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sean Dwyer <ewe2 at c...> wrote:
> I'm still bugged by Petunia's insistence that Harry stays. It 
doesn't
> make sense. Dumbledore as usual does NOT explain properly why she 
would
> - he doesn't REALLY say what his 'last' was, but I seriously doubt 
an
> explaination of a magic blood pact fits the picture. Vernon did 
what we
> would expect, Petunia should have even more reason to be rid of 
Harry.
> 
> Obviously she knows more than she's saying. There is nothing 
explicit
> about her being forced by the pact to act. She's in more danger with
> Harry around than not - Dudley may well be a Squib, as some have
> suggested, but that hardly gives her a motive to protect Harry.
> 
> What did Dumbledore REALLY threaten her with?
> 
> "Sean"

Maybe Professor Dumbledore explained Harry would be the one to 
dispatch Voldemort who threatened not only the WW but the Muggle 
world as well.  After we the readers discovered the "prophesy" we now 
know that he (Professor Dumbledore) had good reason to believe 
Voldemort would eventually return "right as rain and ready to 
thunder" someday.  

Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is NOT a nice 
guy!