[HPforGrownups] Rereading SS/PS question(s)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 153920

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>  Alla wrote:
>
 Take a look at this quote.

"Yet sometimes he thought ( or maybe hoped) that strangers in the
street seemed to know him. Very strange strangers they were, too. A
tiny man in violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping
with Aunt Petunia and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he
knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without
buying anything. A wierd-looking old woman dressed in all green had
waved merrily at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple
coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and
then walked away without a word. The wierdest thing about all these
people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to
get a closer look" - PS/SS. p.30. paperback, amer.ed.

Oh, and of course Petunia seems to be REALLY familiar with WW,
doesn't she? ( just another detail not that I doubt it)


Debbie:

What struck me was Petunia's question to Harry:  Do you know him?  I wonder
if she thought Harry was in contact with wizards at, what, age 6?  I have a
vision of a very flustered Petunia arriving home from the shop with the
intention of contacting Dumbledore to tell him to keep those freaks away
from her family.  Since I don't think she could have sent him an owl, the
question that comes to my mind is:

What did Petunia know about Mrs. Figg?  She evidently had instructions not
to leave Harry at anyone else's house.  Did she suspect -- or assume -- that
Mrs. Figg was a witch?  Or did she simply believe that her house was
similarly protected?  Could she have known that she could contact Dumbledore
through her?

Inquiring minds must know.

Debbie


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