Petunia squib or not? WAS: Re: Random Questions from The Boy Who Liv

[whirledgirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 165005

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jeremiah LaFleur" 
<hpfreakazoid at ...> wrote:

 What if Lily and Petunia weren't blood sisters?
 
 Patricia
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 Jeremiah:
 
<SNIP> The whole story would fall apart and LV would have killed
Harry by now.
 
Also, If Petunia isn't Lily's blood sister then why would she have 
taken Harry in to begin with?

 Jeremiah
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Whirledgirl speculates:

I think it's fair to say that one of the themes in the HP books is 
family. As in, alot of importance is given to family - whether 
by 'blood' like the Malfoys do, or more connected to love like the 
Weasleys. Not to mention Voldie's essential lack of a loving family.

I would like to throw a theory out there and apologise if it has 
been talked about before, but don't ignore it out of hand if 
it's 'new'! :

What if Petunia was adopted?

Now, this doesn't mean that Harry's grandparents - his mother's 
side - would be magic. Lily could still have been the only witch in 
their family. 

DD says that Harry is protected as long as there is *somewhere* he 
can call *home*. Doesn't matter if they mistreat him, essentially 
show no love towards him, apparently. Why? Because of the stability. 
Harry knows what to expect from the Dursleys (unfortunately). Voldie 
as a child had only the stability he could create for himself, by 
controlling others, seeking power, using his 'special'-ness. 

Blood magic has not been given a good rep in the books either, 
examples I can bring to mind at the moment are things like when 
Voldie!Quirrel drinks Unicorn blood, and from that moment "living a 
half life". Why would DD 'protect' Harry using bloody magic anyway? 
The resistance DD shows in allowing Harry to go and live with the 
Weasleys - despite both parties' apparent desire for this to happen -
 shows that it may not be just 'blood ties'. Why?

Because if it was, it wouldn't matter *where* Harry was. He now (in 
Ootp, HBP, even before - think sirius) *knows* that the Dursleys are 
his family. Why would moving somewhere make that any less true for 
him? It's not like students who take a gap year to live abroad 
return and have suddenly - magically - destroyed any familial ties 
they had. 

Therefore, it is possible that Lily and Petunia are *not* biological 
sisters, and would allow for Petunia to feel *some* kind of 
connection/responsibility for the offspring of a family who she was 
welcomed into, and mean that she felt a connection to Harry on a 
personal level because he was an orphan.

Feel free to tear this apart any which way, it's a theory i've had 
semi-formed for some time now, would be interesting to see what 
happens...!

- Whirledgirl, thinking that she may be late for her next class if 
she doesn't get a move on!