What will Petunia tell Harry? (was Re: Theory on Petunia)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 156681

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "esmith222002" <c.john at ...> wrote:
>
> I think the scene will play out something like this:
> 
> Vernon - 'I hope that we can expect NOT to have any more 
> visits from the old fool who popped in last year'
> 
> Harry - '(several expletives). Since he's dead, I think 
> that is highly unlikely!'
> 
> Petunia - 'Dead?'
> 
> Harry - 'Yes. He was murdered by one of the teachers, 
> Professor Snape'
> 
> Petunia - 'Severus Snape?'
> 
> Harry - 'You know him? How?
> 
> Petunia - 'Your mother brought him home once. He was even
> worse than your father!'
> 
> Cue lots of soul searching from Harry as to WHY Lily would
> have brought Snape back to Privet Drive.
> 
> Brothergib - who believes that whatever the Dursleys 
> contribute to book 7, it will not be as significant as
> people think!
>

bboyminn:

Well, I agree and I agree... sort of. People are constantly trying to
create a 'love interest' between Snape and Lily, a love interest that
I personally don't think needs to be their. Like many kids we
associate with in High School, they are friends withing a certain
context. That is you have the friends you hang around with, you have
the friends in your favorite classes, you have friends that are
teammates, and very likely some of the friends fall into more than one
catagory. However, you may have team friends that you don't hang
aroudn with outside of team-related activities.

Snape and Lily could have been 'context' friends. They may have shared
a love of Potions that allowed them to have friendship and association
in that context even though they didn't hang out outside that context.
Lily very well may have brought Snape home as a 'context' friend.
Snape may even have been fond of Lily, maybe even harboring a secret
schoolboy crush. But by no means does any of this, or any of the story
theories require Snape and/or Lily to harbor a deep unrequited love. 

So, I agree, the scenario you paints is a very real possibility, and I
also agree that Petunia has a bigger role to play, but we should be
careful not to let our fantasies expand that role to an unrealistic
level. This is afteral a Harry Potter story.

I'm very sure Petunia will reveal information she has been holding
back, but I can only speculate how important it will be. Perhaps Harry
will simply talk her into showing him Dumbledore's original letter
explaining 'everything'. Maybe Petunia has some old artifacts she
inherited from Lily. Perhaps Petunia's knowledge of the wizard world
goes deeper than we have been lead to believe. These are all possible,
but they will be faced and resolved quickly; there is, afteral, a lot
of story left to tell.

I personally am still favoring an attack on Privet Drive. Given the
fagments of timeline we have been given, I suspect it will be after
the visit to Godric's Hollow, and probably after the wedding at the
Burrow. I suspect just after his birthday, Harry will make his final
visit to Privet Drive to pick-up the last of his personal possessions.
Of course, I'm also an advocate of Harry now having to take the
Dursley's into his protection. Seems an annoying but just outcome.

Not sure what it all adds up to, but there it is.

Steve/bboyminn