[HPforGrownups] Snape and Lily my opinion

[lil.magill at adelphia.net]

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---- Paula Shelgren <pdshelgren at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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... Petunia says Azkaban (sp) and Harry is surprised she knows this. So I think Petunia knows more then she wants to admit to anyone and in the book it portrays her getting real scared knowing Lord Voldemort is back, so if she doesn't know anything about the wizarding world why would she so scared to know that he is back?

Marion here:
It could be as simple as the murder of her sister being a major trauma in her life, especially since she then had to take Harry in for his protection.  She must have been living with some significant fear all these years.  In fact, they are afraid of good wizards, so the thought of a bad one murdering members of your family would really shake a person up.  Dumbledore would have told her about Voldemort, of course.  As for Azkaban and the dementors, it's possible to think she would have heard that Sirius was charged with the murders and went there.    
Might be more to it, but not necessarily.  I don't think I'm right about this next bit, but Petunia is quite a snoop -- I can imagine her subscribing to the Daily Prophet to keep up with Rita Skeeter's column! :-)

Marion