Snape and Petunia, a couple?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 99168

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Of The Pensieve" 
<chrissilein at y...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> indeed Petunia and Snape act very alike. The similarities are
> obviously from my point of view.
> Even they seem to have a very different background Petunia and Snape
> have got something very important in common: They hatred for James
> Potter, yes they hated him both with a passion. The big question is:
> WHY?? Ok, Snape hated James for what he has done to him, but what 
went
> wrong with Petunia? Was it really jeaulousy? Nothing more? 

Hickengruendler:

I don't think Petunia really hated James as a person. I think she 
hated him, because he was a part of the wizarding world. From what we 
can assume from her rant in PS, she was very jealous of Lily and 
probably even felt that her parents neglected her because they had a 
witch in the family. I have no idea how much of this feeling was 
justified, but I tend to think that the Evans parents were probably 
really interested in the wizarding world, and therefore asked Lily 
probably a lot of questions about it during the holidays. Petunia 
went to a muggle school. The parents knew everything about it and 
therefore weren't that much interested in Petunia. Add to this that 
Lily is always described as very beautiful, while Petunia is rather 
ugly, and I think you can see where her loathing for Lily and the 
wizrading world comes from. When she speaks ill about James, I doubt 
it had anything to do with James as a person, but more with the fact 
that he was Lily's husband and a wizard. Although you never know. 
Petunia probably didn't share James sort of humor, therefore she 
might have a grudge against him, too.  

About the original question:
No, I don't think Petunia and Snape were, are or will ever be a 
couple. They couldn't live with each other for three minutes. Prim 
and proper Petunia would be driven mad by the greasy Snape. But I do 
think the characters have some similarities. Both are rather 
unpleasant people, who hold grudges against one of Harry's parents. 
Both of them are not able to forgive and forget and therefore treat 
Harry badly, although he is completely innocent. But both of them 
obviously don't want Harry to die and try their best to save his life.

Hickengruendler