[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius, Sirius, and more Sirius

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 158493

Lynda:

Perhaps familial bonds and the love that is instinctive among family (Lily
and Petunia were sisters after all) will prove to be a stronger protective
force than we yet realize.  JKR has said that there is more to Petunia than
we have yet seen.  Perhaps the lingering of love for her blood sister will
provide extra protection for Harry in the next book.

Lynda



Sherry now:

But love is not instinctive among blood kin.  I neither like nor love my
biological mother or her children from her second husband.  I don't hate
them either.  I simply do not care.  But I love as dearly as any daughter,
the woman who was my father's second wife and who raised me from when I was
6 to 14.  Blood is not thicker than water, but love is most definitely
thicker than blood.  However, I think it's possible that Petunia may once
have loved her sister, and the jealousy only came along after the Hogwarts
letter came.  Either way, I've always been slightly uncomfortable on the
whole thing about the blood magic, because everything else in the books
seems to point out how too much emphasis on blood is wrong and leads to the
discrimination against Half bloods, Muggle borns, muggles and on.  

Sherry