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

[arminor75]

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> > Whirledgirl speculated:
What if Petunia was adopted?

> >va32h:
> What Dumbledore says is that as long as Harry can call home the
> place where his mother's blood dwells, Voldemort cannot harm him.
> Those are Dumbledore's specific words "where your mother's blood".
> Harry's protection is in his very blood - also Dumbledore's own
> words. This is why Quirrell could not touch him without burning his
> flesh. < <


This is my first post. I hope I am doing it correctly.

I agree that Petunia and Lily must share a blood tie for Harry's
protection to work, but could they not be half sisters?

I just cannot figure out why JKR was so "shockingly indiscreet"
about saying Petunia wasn't a squib, but then so absolute that
Petunia had never performed magic and never would.  So it makes me
wonder if Petunia didn't have a putative father (or mother) lurking
around out there somewhere that was a wizard.  Maybe that is why she
despises magic so much...her father/mother left her, she got no
magic abilities, and Lily, born of muggles, was a witch?  Farfetched,
I know, but I'm struggling here.

April