"That awful boy" (Was: Comparing Lupin and Harry )

[sudeeel]

No: HPFGUIDX 143216

Carol wrote: 
> Maybe "that awful boy" is someone else, but why not go with the
> straightforward reading here? Doesn't anyone besides me think that
> Harry's right and the boy is James?

sudeeel: Sorry I'm so late picking up this thread. But I read an
editorial entitled "Aunt Petunia's Little Secret" at Mugglenet last
month that has pretty much convinced me that "that awful boy" was Sirius. 

http://www.mugglenet.com/editorials/editorials/edit-jlw01.shtml

In it, JLW theorizes that family meetings between Potters and Evanses
regarding the coming nuptials of Lily and James included both Petunia
and Sirius (the Potters' "second son"), that Petunia fancied Sirius
and that he broke her heart. In the process of all this, Petunia
overheard a conversation where Sirius talked to Lily about Dementors.
The author notes other reasons from canon to think that Petunia knew
Sirius, as well. It's an interesting theory.

sudeeel