Confunding Parents

[wildirishrose]

No: HPFGUIDX 184099

Sorry.  I deleted the digest I was intending to post on.

If the WW would confund muggle parents into being happy/proud that they had a witch or wizard in the family, what about entire families?  Siblings that weren't witches or wizards.  I would think that siblings would have to be confunded too.  Can you imagine siblings announcing to friends that they had a brother/sister that was part of the WW.  I can't imagine that all muggle born witch/wizards, like Hermoine, were only children?  It seems like WW families were very small.  Only children.  With the exception of Weasleys.

Except Petunia.  It wouldn't be necessary to confund her.  She was ashamed of Lily being a witch.  She said that Lily was a freak.  She was upset that her parents were so proud that Lily was a witch.  Sibling rivalery.  Obviously she wouldn't go around blabbing about things like that.  But I'm thinking that she would have liked to be like Lily.  Her letter to Dumbledore gave that impression.  Or perhaps she just wanted to go to the same school as Lily.  But JKR had to have Petunia the way she was, or else that plot of the story would screw up the whole series.

Marianne


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