Lily and Petunia weren't sisters Was: Petunia's Eyes

[Karina Aleksandrova]

No: HPFGUIDX 169839

Anne Squires wrote:

> 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. 

Karina:

The spell must indeed have worked. Voldemort himself confirms it in GoF:

"But how to get at Harry Potter? For he has been better protected than
I think even he knows, protected in ways devised by Dumbledore long
ago, when it fell to him to arrange the boy's future. Dumbledore
invoked an ancient magic, to ensure the boy's protection as long as he
is in his relations' care. Not even I can touch him there..."

It does sound like the blood protection that is being discussed here,
because of that phrase "while he is in his relations' care".

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Now, my ideas about the quote from JK Rowling: "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."

Petunia could not be a Squib because her parents were muggles, while
by definition Squib is someone born to _magical parents_ without
magical talent. However she could have had the same _feelings_ that
Squibs may have. 

I think what that implies is that when the Evans family realized that
Lily is a witch, and there a whole wizarding world out there, Petunia
really wished to be a witch too. That's why she knows more about the
wizarding stuff than she usually shows. She must have questioned
everyone about it, and found out about Azkaban, Dementors,
Voldemort... And of course, she was receiving letters from Dumbledore.

But in the end, she was not a witch and couldn't become one. She was
jealous of Lily, and became bitter, and turned away from all things
magic, from the unfairness of it all. She rejected Lily because she
was what Petunia wanted to be. I bet that's why she is upset and
angry, whenever her sister is mentioned. 

I also think that jealousy of Harry - of the fact that he is a wizard
- contributes to the way Petunia has treated him. It's not _the fear
of magic_ as in Vernon, but more _jealousy_ that speaks in Petunia. 

I could draw parallels to a known Squib - Filch. We know that he wants
to learn magic, as we've seen the KwikSpell letter he had. We also see
how bitter he is about his inability to use magic: spying on students,
banning all magic and magical toys from the corridors, wishing to use
corporal punishments on them, etc... It's all jealousy, really.

That quote does not indicate to me the possibility that Petunia and
Lily weren't sisters. 
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As far as different eyes, I have no ideas, none at all, but I'll be
watching this topic with interest.

Karina