Petunia's secret/ was Petunia and Dumbledore

[syroun]

No: HPFGUIDX 115429


Tonks wrote:

> I have been thinking about Petunia and the fact that JKR says the 
> person she dislikes the most is Vernon...Why Vernon? So here is an 
> idea that fits with your idea of what isn't been said. It is so   
> easy to overlook the silences. Here I am also speaking of         
> Petunia's silence when it comes to "stamping out the magic in the 
> boy".
> 
> If I remember correctly most of the "stamping out" of magic from 
> Harry comes from Vernon. Maybe the reason JKR 
> doesn't like Vernon is that he does not allow a person to be who 
> they are...Not allowing a person to be fully what and who they 
> were meant to be is in someway worst than just killing their body; 
> it is killing their soul, in a sense. As I have said before, I 
> think Petunia is a witch that chose to live as a Muggle. Maybe 
> because she knows Vernon would not have married her otherwise.  


I agree with Tonks; JKR has already warned us that there is more to 
Petunia and that we should keep an eye on her. Past that, her 
reaction to Harry's description of the dementors was not one of an 
average muggle that holds whole idea of the WW as a "bin of 
rubbish". She shows that she as a profound understanding of the 
gravity of the situation. Harry comments that for the first time, 
she sees something in Petunia's eyes that proves she is the sister 
of his mother, Lily. 

This profound reaction gives her away. She is not just 
the average muggle that happens to have a magical sister; she most 
likely has her own personal experience within the WW and has chosen, 
for one reason or another, to live strictly as a muggle. I also 
think that the fact that Harry has spent appreciable time over the 
years with Mrs. Figg, a squib in the WW, but an eccentric nutter to 
muggles, is evidence of Petunia's connection with and understanding 
of the WW along with her grasp of Harry's need for protection over 
and above what she has provided him through the blood curse. It is 
not likely that someone like Petunia would ever have anything to do 
with an odd bird like Figg, if she did not have a significant 
underlying reason for it. Figg is the type of neighbor Petunia would 
ordinarily shun. 

It is likely that DD has had a good deal of contact with Petunia 
over the years, and perhaps she has contacted him as well. I cannot 
remember an instance where Petunia has instigated the harsh 
treatment that Harry recieves at the Dursely's - she is complicit 
out of respect for or fear of her husband, as many wives are. Petunia
may still harbour feelings of jealousy for Lily, or a loathing of 
the WW in general, just as Snape still harbours hatred for those 
that bullied him as a child (Harry's father, et. Al.), but both 
Petunia and Snape show faint signs of a willingness to protect Harry 
in their behaviour. 

They are, essentially, still human beings willing to afford 
protection to children...regardless of how imperfect as they may 
seem otherwise.

Syroun