"that awful boy"

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 148294

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "agdisney" <agdisney at ...> wrote:
>
> Andie here:
> 
> What does anyone think of Petuna & "that awful boy?"
> If I remember my teenage years and girlfriends/boyfriends, if a 
girl 
> really liked a certain boy & he did not feel the same, a teenage 
girl 
> would do and say anything to cover up her feelings to others.
> Such as:  Didn't you want to date John?  Who him, he's a jerk 
or "an 
> awful boy."
> 
> Maybe Petunia actually liked that awful boy and Lily stole him away 
or 
> made fun of her sister with that boy.  Maybe that is one reason why 
> Petunia hated her sister so much and since he was part of the WW 
she 
> also hated him.
> 
> If it was James, her treatment of Harry seems more logical.  In her 
> point of view, Harry could have been her son if Lily hadn't 
interfered.
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

It may have been James, or it may have been Snape, or it may have 
been someone completely off the roster (Lupin?). Whoever it was, it 
sounds as if Petunia expressed an interest and was rebuffed or 
ignored because the young man had eyes only for Lily.

By the way, what kind of parents name one of their daughters Lily and 
the other Petunia? The lily is the emblem of purity; hence its 
presentation to Mary at the Annunciation; whereas the petunia in the 
Language of Flowers stands for resentment and anger, and at the very 
least the name is a sort of joke used in name-calling. It sounds at 
the very least as if they were guilty of a certain amount of 
favoritism.

Does canon ever indicate which of the girls is older? I have a 
feeling, but only a feeling, that Lily was.