[HPforGrownups] Re: Petunia's Eyes

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 169842

Jeremiah: (Chiming in)

Ok, so to start off, this subject began with Petunia's eyes not being the
same as Lily's eyes. So, some of you have asked if that means they are not
related by blood? How did you jump to that? Honestly, not every single
sibling has the same eyes. My brother's eyes and my eyes aren't alike. Shape
and color vary even between siblings.

Second, there's a metaphore here. Petunia's eyes are different becasue she
sees the world as a constant struggle for normality and acceptance. lily's
eyes saw the world as being filed with magic and possibilities. Their eyes
are different in more than one way. How they see the world and their place
in it is completely different from eachother.

Plus, Lily'e eyes are green. I can't remember what color Petunia's are but
my brother's eyes are pale blue and mine are hazel green. And, yes, we have
the same parents.

Not only that, maybe lily & Petunia's mom got remaried at some point! We
have no idea.


On 6/5/07, Tandra <tkjones9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    "karen" wrote:
>
> 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...
>
> TKJ replies:
> I think that DD would of known the family dynamic. He would of known
> if they were blood related or not. Why I think this I'm not all too
> sure, but there had to be an eye kept on the house of some sort no?
> Then why would they have known Lilly had magical powers?
>
> The theory I had come up with a while ago is that they are fraternal
> twins. They were close until they were going to go off to a good
> (secondary?) school, that Petunia was all proud about going to and
> Lilly got her letter for Hogwarts. This made her parents proud and
> they fumbled all over Lilly as Petunia said, making her horribly
> jealous and bitter.
>
> Or maybe Lilly was always the favored twin and Petunia got into a
> better school than her and was reveling in it. She was finally the
> better one then arrives the letter from Hogwarts. IDK it's just my
> theory. Feel free to pick it apart.
>
> TKJ
>
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