Theory on Petunia

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 156495

To begin, I am so frustrated with my posts disappearing!  I have
lost 3 now!  I have also been dumb and did not do anything to save
them on my side, so when they are lost, they are gone.  Blehhhhh  )
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Maybe without every comment included I can explain further?

I acknowledge that JKR said Petunia is not going to exhibit magic
ever.

I am going on the new comment that when a Muggle gets her hands on a
wand, something violent occurs.  From the transcript on QQQ of the
first reading:

"She also stated that if a muggle were to get their hands on a wand
then she would expect something 'accidental and violent' to be the
result of that, in a similar way as when a wizard uses someone
else's wand. She also went on to tease us slightly in saying that
there would be more in book 7 about the wizard's personal connection
to his/her wand."  JKR in NYC

I am proposing that there is a grand ma or pa elf.  Also that
Petunia and Lily are half-sisters, and that the elf is on the side
of the unshared parent.  Harry would not have the elf in him.

So someone, DE or any funny looking person, comes around when Harry
is out.  His wand is there, maybe because it dropped out of his
robes, or Dudders nicked it.  Petunia, remembering a spell she heard
Lily utter, tries to use the wand.  Something "accidental and
violent" happens.

There is not supposed to be magic in this home, Harry is too far
away to register as having been the culprit, and so then (thanks to
quick lawmaking) the new Winky-inspired-elf-using-wand-detector goes
off and sends an owl.  The letter accuses Petunia, next to the
settee, grand-daughter of Swiffy the elf, of doing magic with a
wizard's wand.  Vernon is NOT happy.

It detected magic of some sort – Harry's residual power in the wand –
 and put the wrong face to the action, just as Harry was accused of
Dobby's magic.

>abergoat offers:
>So it is an excellent bet that the Dursleys will go to Grimmauld
>Place. I hope this takes you somewhere!

Laurawkids:
Oh, yes!  Maybe Kreacher scavenged things from elsewhere when he
left the house, thus upping the ante.  Petunia is bound to be very
intent on cleaning the place up – if only her friends could see her
there!  How ashamed she'd be!  She could not *possibly* allow Vernon
and Dudders to live in it uncleaned, even if it is keeping them
safe!  I imagine a huge pile of magical goodies emerging.  Maybe
there is an unexpected free-be Horcrux hidden in some cleaned-up
place!

>Doddie:
>HOWEVER, given Dobby's admiration of Harry... I wouldn't be
>surprised if there was some "elfblood" on his maternal family's
>side....

Laurawkids:  No, I was not suggesting that.  Already mentioned above.

>Doddie:
>But JKR told us someone would be doing magic rather late in
>life....which leads me to believe that it will be either Petunia or
>Dudley!
>Wouldn't this be the most fitting end for the Dursleys???---that
>their son could do magic??? LOL

Laurawkids: Petunia is out, and I'm not betting on Dudley, BUT


Would it not be too fun if Diddleydumpkins were to get to go to
Hogwarts and be an Ickle Firsty when Harry is in his 7th year?!
Somehow he could be locked in the *C*hamber  under the *S*chool just
as Harry was locked in the *C*loset under the *S*tairs.  All the
students and Grawp and Hagrid could jump up and down on the Castle
and make yukky globs of old Basilisk slime fall on him.  I do live
with 2 boys!

This was asked of JKR in 1999:

"I want to know what Dudley does with his life.
That is a question I would love to answer, but it will ruin some
surprises. I will only say that Dudley's privileged existence starts
to change for the worse in Book 4. "
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0399-
barnesandnoble.html
I don't think becoming as wide as he is tall is a surprise, nor
getting in to boxing.  There has to be something more to qualify as
a surprise she'd like to protect.  She has also said there is
nothing to him, but that could be more about his past than his
future.  Who knows?

>Brothergib:
>I have to be honest, I think this rather puts an end to the
>possibility that it might be Dudley as well.

Laurawkids:  I guess I feel she has been cagey on Dudders and it is
50/50 chances that he will get some magic.

>Rebecca:
>So, if you recall, Harry's POV more
>than once is that Petunia looks nothing like Lily.

Laurawkids:  That is why I think she is a half-sister.

>Rebecca, who recalls in this thread earlier that someone
>mentioned Petunia never goes out - recalling that she did
>once in PS/SS because Harry and Petunia run into Diggle
>while shopping.

Laurawkids:  We could get around that if Vernon told her to take him
and go shopping.

>hpfan_mom, trying SO hard not to picture the union that would
>result in a half-blood elf . . .

Laurawkids, noting that we already have Hagrid's parents to picture –
 tiny little man, big big big boned woman.  I mean c'mon.  What is
even the point?