CHAPDISC: DH3, The Dursleys Departing

[kneazlecat54]

No: HPFGUIDX 177491

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Nancy:
> > > Answer: <snip> I do hold a secret desire to have them meet  on 
> > Platform 9 3/4 with Dudley delivering his child to the Howarts 
> > express:-).there is so much unfinished business there one can't 
> > begin to summarize it.
> > 
> > Laura:
> > Oh, what a delicious idea!  I'd love to see that too.  Can  you 
> > imagine how fast the Dursleys would do a 180 on their attitude 
> > towards magic?  
> 
> Potioncat:
<snip>Would 
> Dudley and his parents embrace a wizarding child, or would they 
act just like the Black family on learning a child is a Squib?

Laura:
My guess is that the Dursleys hated magic because it gave other 
people power that they could never get, not even by buying it or 
bullying it out of someone.  But if they could have gotten magical 
powers, all of a sudden it would look pretty good to them, because 
they're all about status.  Having someone in the family with 
abilities that would give them power over others would make them 
pretty happy, I'd think.

Potioncat:
> Which makes me wonder even more. How would Narcissa have reacted 
if Draco had been a Squib? <snip>

Laura:
I shudder to think.  Perhaps another head on the wall at 12 
Grimmauld Place?