This moment

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 175279

Adam wrote:
*small snip(
> I've mentioned this before, actually, but for me, it was Petunia's
> letter to Dumbledore. 
> It makes sense to me that most of us on this site have at some 
point hoped we'd be granted magic powers, or get to escape for real 
into a world like those we read about in books, but we grew up, and 
it never happened.
> 
> And here, we see two little girls, one of whom is invited to join 
that world.  Told she has unbelievable powers, and there's an entire
> alternate universe that she is welcome to join.  And her sister 
isn't. It broke my heart, because I can't imagine what it would be 
like if my sister, or friend, or anyone suddenly got this magic 
ticket to a whole new world, and I was told, sorry, you can't come - 
even worse that it was told so kindly by Dumbledore.
> 
> And what kind of world does Petunia wind up in?  One married to 
Vernon
> Dursley, of whom we've seen precious little to regard as 
worthwhile. 
> Maybe Petunia did look for one of the biggest Muggles there is to 
get further from a world she could never join.
> 
> The most powerful message of calvinism and fate dictated by birth
> isn't Slytherin, it's the simple fact of magic vs. non-magic.  
There is no choice, no personality judgment, no qualifications.  But 
some get the magic ticket, and some get left behind.
> 
> Poor Tuney.
> 
> ~Adam (Prep0strus)

Doddie here:


This may have been more of a moment for me if Petunia had atleast 
apologized to Harry for her treatment of him, but she got her wish 
in the end the Dursleys went into a wizarding household to hide. 
They get to side-along apparrition too!

You're right poor Tuney, living in a wizarding household during a 
Wizarding War-with Dudders running about with his hands over his 
posterior each time he sees a want and all Vernon's "Ruddy Hell's" 
each time a patronus delivers a message! Tuney listening to the news 
of the deaths of muggle and wizards alike remembering hearing the 
news of Lily's death and her knowing Harry was out there fighting.

Doddie,
(who wonders if Petunia ever met Albus Severus--even if out shopping 
some day, and what, if anything would she say to Harry after the 
war.)