[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dursleys:

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 167485

From: finwitch <finwitch at yahoo.com>
>> I agree here with Bart ... there is something that has yet to be
>> revealed about Petunia. After all, what was her motivation to make an
>> agreement with Dumbledore. Why would she take "magic" in to her house
>> .. . What did she fear if she didn't? Let's just say it ... what is
>> Petunia hiding???

>Indeed - very interesting. She took Harry in then - when he was so 
>*very* young child. What ever else, NOT doing so would be criminal. 
>(and not "normal" either). AND the neighbours would notice a crying 
>child on a known housewife's doorstep... that could explain why she 
>took him.

Finally, especially in PS/SS, it seems that the Dursleys aren't trying to keep Harry away from his birthright as much as they are trying to SHIELD him from magic. That is the reason why I think that the Dursleys, as conceived, had some other factor going, which did not show up in print.

Bart