Dumbledore's letters to Petunia (Re: Petunia's Eyes)

[amis917]

No: HPFGUIDX 169954

Dung:
I think the last thing they'd have been planning for was orphaned!
Harry. James and Lily were the last line of defence, if they died,
they imagined, so would Harry. They could never have predicted what
happened at GH. Although... thinking about it, if they didn't know
about the prophecy, they might have thought that Voldy was after
them, rather than Harry, so they could have wondered if Harry would
be orphaned, I suppose. But if they did know it was Harry that Voldy
was after, I don't think it would have occured to them that they
might die and that Harry might live.

Amis917 now:
I think that the Potters knew something of the prophecy. Why else 
would they specifically go into hiding? Surely everyone in the Order 
and fighting against the Death Eaters were in danger of being killed. 
As I'm sure has been speculated before, I think that Dumbledore gave 
the Potters and the Longbottoms some kind of warning. I believe this 
warning to be the reason they went into hiding in the first place. I 
don't think we have any evidence from cannon that the Longbottoms 
were also in hiding. However, they were tortured, possibly over 
information about the whereabouts of the Potters. 

I do, however, think that the Potters would have planned for some 
alternate care for Harry in the case of their deaths. Especially when 
they thought that the person they were going to leave Harry with, 
Sirius, had betrayed the Order. I'm not sure that this would be with 
the Dursleys. I do agree with Jen, however that it is possible Lily 
thought Harry would be safer in the Muggle world. Dumbledore likely 
offered to assist in his protection. 

Dung:
<snip>
I wondered, briefly, whether DD had lent James' invisibility cloak to
Petunia, but I don't think that can be right, because somebody would
have had to collect it, and we have no canon that Petunia was in
contact with anybody at all from the time DD left Harry and the
letter on their doorstep.

Alternatively, what happens if we hypothesise that when Vernon asks
Petunia if she's heard from her sister lately, and she replies "No,
why?" she is in fact lying? Could Petunia be the GH witness under the
invisibility cloak? Unlikely, I think, but worth opening up for
speculation


Amis 917:
I don't think that Petunia was at GH, but I do think she was lying. I 
do think it is possible that Lily or Dumbledore attempted to contact 
her to warn her she and her family may be in danger. The more I think 
about it, I get the idea that Petunia has a greater understanding of 
the magical world than she lets on to. 

We get our ideas of Petunia's feelings on the WW from Harry and 
Vernon. Could she be pretending?? Was she asked by Dumbledore in one 
of letters to completely distance herself form the WW?? While this is 
also unlikely, it could be possible. Couldn't it?

All in my opinoin, of course :)

Amis917