[HPforGrownups] Re: Petunia

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 114053

> Tabekat <geekessgoddess at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> Petunia does NOT love Harry, never did love Harry, and these 
> speculations of a "deeper" Petunia are truly absurd.  
> <snip>
> Petunia appears to have one true goal in life. She wants her 
> muggle world to stay the same.  She wants Dudley to grow up 
> to be a big Vernon. She wants to pretend they are "normal" 
> forever.  Surely she knows that Voldemort was, and is, a 
> threat to her world too.  


Yes, she probably does know that.  Petunia doesn't have to like Harry
or not resent his presence to fulfill the terms of the magical
protection that Lily died to put on him.  She does know more than she
lets on (or that she wants to know) about the magical world, but I
don't think at this point she has any envy of it.  After all, magic
was responsible for killing her sister in her early 20's; if that's
magic, she'll stay proudly muggle, thank you very much.  

But we can accept all of her flaws as long as we accept that she took
Harry in - resentfully, grudgingly, angrily - but she did take him
in.  And for that she deserves credit.  

Magda


		
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