Dumbledore's Magnaminity

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 143063

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
>
>  
> > PJ:  
> > Petunia isn't a "regular" muggle.  
> 
> a_svirn:
> Yes, she is. Until it's proven otherwise she is a regular and 
> ordinary muggle.


Geoff:
As regular and ordinary as any Muggle who has a relative in the 
Wizarding World?

"...Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that - 
that /school/ - and came home every holiday with her pockets full of 
frog-spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her 
for what she was - a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it 
was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the 
family!"

(PS "The Keeper of the Keys" p.44 UK edition)

As regular and ordinary as any Muggle who can recognise 
Transfigurations and have a bad dose of jealousy.


> a_svirn:
> They took their nephew, because his life was endangered. We don't 
> know by the way whether they knew for sure that Harry was a wizard 
> at the time. 


Geoff:
'"We swore when we took him in we'd put a stop to that rubbish," said 
Uncle Vernon, "swore we'd stamp it out of him! Wizard indeed!"
"You /knew/? said Harry. "You /knew/ I'm a - a wizard?"
"Knew!" shrieked Aunt Petunia suddenly. "/Knew/! Of course we 
knew!..."'

(ibid. pp.43-44)

QED.