Petunia's Eyes

[karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 169826

Someone please read what I'm thinking most recently and try to find 
some reason why this couldn't be true.  I really think it makes a lot 
of sence but I want others to check it.  Furthermore, do we know who 
is older- Petunia or Lily?

Ok so let me make a leap and say that Lily and Petunia are not 
related by blood (as others have suggested to me). Petunia hates her 
sister and let me propose why.

Imagine a muggle family- a young man, a woman, and their adorable 
daughter (Petunia). Now for whatever reason, they decide to adopt 
another child- Lily. Petunia is now not the only child and is angry 
about having to share her parents' attention with another. Quite 
typical for children. Now time goes by and her sister becomes favored 
and Petunia is still jealous. Then, Lily is found to be a witch and 
her parents are so proud. Well that is just it for Petunia! She is 
enraged with her sister and jealous like crazy.

Now, her sister is murdered and the time comes for her to raise Harry 
as her own. She is going to do exactly the oposite of what her 
parents did to their little new comer (Lily). She is going to 
mistreat Harry not only because he is her sister's son but also 
because she does not want her son to feel the way she did growing up. 

Now what are your thoughts on this? I have gotten responces from 
others saying that then there would be no blood protection at no. 4 
then if Petunia and Lily were not blood related. However, someone 
else said, "At the end of 'Will and Won't' in HBP, Petunia 
looks 'oddly flushed' when DD is talking about the blood 
protection. " Interesting... maybe she knows that there is no blood 
relation with her and Lily... Thoughts please...