Is Petunia older or younger than Lily?

[Amanda Coleman]

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Is Petunia older or younger than Lily?

If younger I can picture Lily and her as good friends and close
sisters and Lily confiding in Petunia about what Hogwarts was like,
and her new friends and telling her <i>about</i> magic even if, with
the no magic in the holidays ban, Petunia might not have seen it.

Imagine her disappointment if they had been planning what they would
do when Petunia got her letter, and then it never came.

Disappointed dreams do turn to bitter resentment.

Or she might have been older and everyone's favourite, and then Lily
marries James, who is from an old family, has money, and even in term
of the muggle world that has a certain cachet. Vernon is a salesman,
and doesn't have any of the style or grace of the impression of James.
This is supported by their belittling of James and Lily's place in the
world - It makes Petunia feel herself more; less of a small person,
though it only creates her one.

Just a very random and thus maybe not well supported thought
Rissa