[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily and Petunia weren't sisters Was: Petunia's Eyes

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 169854

>
> 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".


montims:

Oh dear - I wasn't going to enter this one, but thinking about it:  It COULD
be that DD is in error in believing that they are blood relatives, but that
LV does not know this - if Snape (or another spy - Wormtail would have heard
this discussed often both at the Burrow and Hogwarts, I am sure) believed
the protection was unbreakable ancient magic, and told LV so, he would not
have even attempted to break it.  He saw the result of his Lily-blocked AK,
after all, and wouldn't want to risk a recurrence...

I thought first of all that the WW would know everything about Lily's
family, but it's true that her ancestors were muggles, and her parents died
young.  If Lily herself wasn't aware that she and Petunia weren't true
sisters, there is no real reason why the WW would have investigated very
deeply...  Obviously, since the AK, everything Potter is public WW history,
but before this?  Hmmm.....  By the way, I believe Petunia is older than
Lily.  JMO.

I'm almost convinced now...


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