The Deathly Hallows and the Dursleys

[Ronin_47]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: poohmeg20 
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:21 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re:The Deathly Hallows and the Dursleys

Ever since the beginning I have felt some connection between Petunia 
and Snape - there are many similarities between the way JKR 
describes them physically as being thin with angled features, and 
even though they express it differently sometimes they both share a 
distrust of other people and have many insecurities based on a 
desire to fit into the world they want to be in but see themselves 
on the edge of (Snape wants to hide his half-blood background, 
Petunia wants to be the muggliest Muggle ever). It seems like too 
much of a coincidence for these two unpleasant yet not evil people 
to both be built up as major pieces of the final book without having 
some connection to one another. <<


--My comments--

Now that you mention it, I've never really payed much attention to those similarities, but you're right. It could very well be.
Imagine what the children will look like?
lol

I read that we would learn something about Lily and something about Petunia as well. I also remember reading that someone who's never performed magic before will perform it, but that Petunia never has and never will perform magic. Something to do with her correspondence with Dumbledore will be explained though. I'm just beginning to re-read HBP and noticed the bit about Harry wondering why DD referred to correspondences, rather than the one letter. If it was important enough for Harry to think about in that instance, I'm sure it will be signifigant somehow.

I was thinking along the lines that perhaps Snape was obsessed with Lily or they had even dated. Maybe he was brought around and met Petunia. (Not unlike Harry and Ginny) 
Could be he had started as friends with Lily before she started hanging with James and that crowd. Maybe she started to ditch him for her new gang and he got closer to Petunia in an attempt to either make Lily jealous or to stay close to Lily. Then maybe they hit it off. 
Whatever the case turns out to be, I agree that there is certainly a lot to think about here. There is more to Petunia than meets the eye and certainly, Snape is going to be a substantial part of it.

OMG...Maybe Kreacher is Snape's & Petunia's!  (just joking)

Cheers,
Ronin



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