Our changing perception of characters

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 192318



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eric Oppen  wrote:
>
> Quoting nikkalmati :
> 
> 
> > The world was not composed of SS and James.  I am sure there were   
> > lots of other boys she could have gone out with besides James.  I   
> > was just wondering in a cynical way if being rich is better than   
> > not.  Her economic background must have been not much better than   
> > Severus', if they lived close together.
> >
> That might also explain Patooty's behavior: she's socially unsure of  
> herself, having "married up" by marrying Vernon.
> 
> Vernon's from a well-off-enough background that he went to Smeltings,  
> which doesn't sound like a cheap proposition, even if it isn't  
> anywhere near Eton or Harrow.  If Lily and Petunia's parents were  
> struggling, and had "gone down in the world," Petunia might well  
> figure that Vernon's a good catch, whatever his faults.
> 
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Nikkalmati

Patunia does seem to be grasping desperately at security, as though it could all disappear suddenly.  I do wish we had had some "last words" from her in DH.

Nikkalmati