Characters and Consequences? /What does Dumbledore wanted on the Tower?

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No: HPFGUIDX 141791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> But there's more going on at Privet Drive than meets the eye. 
> For one thing, we're told in HBP that Harry has been refusing 
> meals, which means that someone (Petunia?) is trying to see 
> that he eats them.
> 
> Perhaps some element of her  better nature is trying to assert 
> itself? If Dumbledore had come in with some heavy-handed "take 
> better care of Harry or I'll turn you into a toad" would that 
> part of her ever have surfaced? Or would it have strengthened 
> the part of her that says all wizards are the enemy?
 

Hmmm.  Or perhaps the fact that she was threatened with dreadful 
consequences by the Order has something to do with it?  Amazing 
how well those threats work.  They probably would have worked 
earlier, too.  Which is yet another reason I think JKR is backing 
off the whole issue.

Still, Petunia does probably have some information to reveal.  But 
I wouldn't hold my breath for a change of character.  JKR herself 
has, after all, said "it's probably too late for Vernon and Petunia."

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