Lily's Letter (and Petunia)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 173485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" 
> I can only image that the Wizards post a Wizard in the Muggle postal 
system, much like they posted a helper in the Muggle Prime Minister's 
office for protection. I am quite sure that there are Wizard contacts 
somewhere in the Muggle banking system too, because you need some means 
of exchange. The two systems would largely remain separate yes, but 
somewhere is a contact point. Otherwise, how would the Muggle postman 
be deliving Harry's first Hogwart's 
> letter?

va32h:

We don't know that he did...it was with the other mail, but an owl 
could have left it there, as it is owls who deliver all the other 
letters. 

Anyway, in the Prince's Tale chapter, when Lily tells Petunia that she 
knows Petunia has written to Dumbledore, Lily also says that Snape says 
that there are wizards working undercover at the post office to 
intercept that kind of mail. So we do have an answer on that. 

On a related note, I was very disappointed that Petunia couldn't muster 
up -ANYTHING - to say to her nephew. Personally (and yes, again here I 
blaspheme against JKR) rather than finding out about Lily/Snape during 
*just* the Prince's Tale, I think a better device would have been 
Petunia giving Harry a bundle of letters containing the  note 
Dumbledore left with baby Harry, and also letters from Lily that she 
sent home during school. Such letters could contain references to her 
friend Sev, their falling out, and perhaps something that explains why 
she decided to go out with James Potter? This would have made Harry's 
confusion over Dumbledore even more interesting - as he finds reasons 
to doubt Dumbledore, he finds reasons to trust Snape hmmm....that would 
have been interesting. 

va32h