Remember my last:: SPOILER

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115176


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000"
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:
 
Sylvia:
 
> Finwitch: If Petunia never applied to a Muggle school, expecting a 
> Hogwarts letter, it may explain why she ended up as a house-wife 
> instead of having a work of her own.
> 
> Soory, but this is a damned patronising attitude to t ake towards 
> women who elect to be stay-at-home Mums. Do you really think the job 
> of bringing up children is suitable only for the uneducated?  

No - simply that Petunia was drifted into it rather than choose to
stay at home, mainly because *she* is uneducated. She could *pretend*
to be a devoted house-wife - such as keeping her house so spot-less!

She hates magic - and this could be due to her failure of getting an
education and a job. She blames magic for it.

She might *pretend* that she chose to stay. (Honest, pretend she
doesn't *have* a sister? That she knows nothing about magic?)

Then again, she may have made the choise to stay - just because that
was *required* for the pact.

And Dumbledore leaving the letter with Harry - and Harry at the
doorstep... Did he perhaps stay and watch over invisibly? Leaving a
little child like that... no wonder poor Harry has trouble trusting
people. Really - his parents die (sure, not their fault, whatever
Petunia thinks, but the child still feels abandoned). Then there are
these people taking him, only to abandon him onto a doorstep, in rain
and rather cold weather?

I think Harry remembers, if only subconciously, that Sirius wanted to
take care of him there and then. (If he remembers the green light, why
not this?) Even when Sirius had to give up after (long?) arguement
with Hagrid, he gives the flying motorcycle because Harry likes
flying, to give little Harry at least that last bit of fun, and faster
transport so that he's not too long out without shelter.

Although Harry never saw Sirius again, until that face in the TV -
maybe this last experience was one reason he chose to trust Sirius?
And the fact that Sirius had given him that broomstick, sent him that
letter - that Sirius never abandoned Harry - unlike every other adult
he met.

Finwitch