Petunia's Eyes

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 169808

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "anne_t_squires" 
<tfaucette6387 at ...> wrote:
>> Lily and Petunia have to be related by blood.  If they weren't 
Harry
> wouldn't have to think of no. 4 as home and return each year to 
where
> his mother's blood dwells. There wouldn't be any blood protection 
if
> they weren't related by blood.  S. R.'s comment has got me 
wondering
> if maybe Lily and Petunia aren't sisters.  Cousins?  But, I don't 
see
> the point really.  Why would the fact that Petunia is some other
> relative to Harry be important plot wise?  
> 
> Let's see, hmmm.  
> 
> 1.  She has to be related by blood or no blood protection.
> 2.  Her eyes are not like her sister's. 
> 3.  JKR said, "She is not a squib, although that is a very good 
guess. 
> Oh, I am giving a lot away here. I am being shockingly 
indiscreet."  
> 
> If she's not a squib (but, that's a good guess), and she's not a
> witch, then she's....what? A Muggle, right?  What's surprising 
about
> that?  So, she's not a Muggle?  Then she must be......I've got
> nothing.  Some kind of ocd creature who has to clean. 
> 
> I definitely think there is a clue here.  I just can't figure it 
out.
> 
> Wait, wait, wait.  This just occurred to me as I was writing this
> post.  Maybe S. R. is absolutely correct.  Maybe point no. 1 is not
> true.  Maybe Lily and Petunia aren't sisters by blood after all. 
> Maybe one or the other was indeed adopted.  Perhaps DD just assumed
> that Petunia and Lily were blood sisters.  Would DD have had 
reason to
> suspect otherwise?  Maybe DD had assumed all these years that the
> blood protection was in place at no. 4 when in actuality it 
wasn't. 
> What if there isn't any blood protection and there never has been? 
> When DD makes mistakes, he makes BIG mistakes.  And the eyes have 
been
> the clue.  Also, Petunia looks nothing,absolutely nothing like 
Lily. 
> In the universe of JKR siblings and other family members almost 
always
> look like each other.  Plot wise this would be crucially important
> because everyone assumes Harry is safe at no. 4 until his 
birthday. 
> What if he isn't?
> 
> Anne



Leah:

The 'no blood protection due to adoption' is an interesting idea. 

Against the idea:  I believe DD must have explained the blood 
protection to Petunia to some extent, to explain why she needed to 
take Harry in.  If Petunia had been able to turn round to DD, and 
sar, "Very sorry, but that won't work" and not have all the bother 
of taking in Hzrry, wouldn't she have done so.  I would also think 
that the blood protection had in some way to be invoked by DD and if 
there was no blood link then that invocation wouldn't have taken"

For the idea:  At the end of 'Will and Won't' in HBP, Petunia 
looks 'oddly flushed' when DD is talking about the blood 
protection.  Was she lying about being Lily's blood sister in order 
to get some quid pro quo from DD?  But wouldn't DD have sensed this 
and any invocation still not have worked?

Leah       
 

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