A Thought About Petunia Dursley (Harry's Aunt)

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 161196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson" 
<bawilson at ...> wrote:
> JKR has said that in the case of Muggleborns, a Hogwarts teacher or 
a Department
> of Magical Education official hand-delivers the letter and answers 
any
> questions.  We know that mageling children have 'breakouts'--
uncontrolled and
> unpredictable magical happenings--and the parents of a muggleborn 
witch or
> wizard would certianly suspect that there was something odd going 
on.  How many
> python, Aunt Marge, child-on-a-school-roof, or incredible shrinking 
sweater
> incidents would it take?  And wouldn't the explanation that little 
Jeremy or
> Jessica was a wizard or witch be actually a bit of a relief?
> BAW
> 
Charles:
Now this is an angle I hadn't thought of before-it could really shed 
some light on Petunia. We know that Petunia was really upset that 
Lily was a witch. Is it possible that Petunia was fairly nasty to her 
sister *before* they knew she was a witch? This might indeed mean 
that Lily's instances of accidental magic involved Petunia. I can 
just see a scene along about the time Lily is about to recieve her 
Hogwarts letter: Petunia is taunting her "freak of a sister" with a 
few of her closest girlfriends in back of the house. Lily isn't 
saying anything, but she's getting angrier and angrier. She can't 
tell her folks, because they've gone out for a few hours and left the 
older Petunia in charge. All of a sudden, Petunia sprouts ears and a 
tail to match her "bony horse face." As Petunia's friends are about 
to run screaming from the house, the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad 
apparates in with a series of loud cracks- obliviating everybody but 
the future Hogwarts student and her sister, as the letter will be 
arriving within the hour- leaving Petunia with a lifelong fear of 
wizards and magic.

Pure speculation, unlikely scenario-but fun to imagine and it would 
explain a lot about Petunia.

Charles, who's hoping that the Dursleys suffer in book 7.