Snape and Petunia/ Snape and Lily

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No: HPFGUIDX 155677

 
> "K":
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> What's interesting is what Petunia overheard Lily and that awful 
boy 
> discussing. What kind of company discusses dementors? An awful boy 
> whom Rowling won't reveal. 
> 
> What do we find out one book later? Snape, who is up to his neck in 
> the dark arts, evidently has a different way of tackling dementors 
> than Harry. Dementors. Who else would visit someone and talk about 
> dementors.

Potioncat:
It's too bad we neither know when the awful boy talked about 
Dementors OR how old Petunia is relative to Lily. But someone had 
reason to discuss Azkaban when Petunia was around, and it's someone 
she calls a boy rather than a man. It's hard to tell if the "boy" was 
a Hogwarts student or a young adult. 

Could be Snape. Could be DE!Snape wanting to "return" and going to 
Lily first. 

It's also been mentioned with both Lily and Snape having Muggle 
relations, they may have known each other. We don't see too much of 
that in the series---most of the kids arrive at Hogwarts without 
friends---except of course for Draco.

Isn't it a bit interesting that Vernon makes drill bits---a piece of 
machinery and Snape is somehow associated with some sort of mill. Not 
all mills are textile. I wonder if the Evans family had some 
connection to the mill near Spinner's End and Petunia met the dashing 
young drill bit salesman while working in her father's office one 
summer.

There's a big social difference between the mill owner/mill 
management and the mill workers. But (at least in the Southern USA) 
the houses might not be so far away from each other.

I wouldn't be surprised if the awful boy was Peter--leave it to 
Petunia to ferret out a rat. But I don't know why Peter would be 
discussing Dementors with Lily.