Maybe someone knows the answer...

[foxmonkey]

I've been thinking about this since the first book, and with every beginning and ending since of the four books in the series that I've read.

Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia seem to hate Harry Potter with every fiber of their being, with the intense, burning hatred of a thousand fiery suns.

Why are they so hell-bent on keeping him around?

I don't get this. They don't want him to come home for holidays during the school year, but they refuse to let him visit Ron over the summer. Weh? Shouldn't they be *glad* to get rid of him? If he's gone over the summer as well, they'd practically never have to see him at all.

Enlighten me, o great thinkers of Pottermania.

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[mostlikelyto.livejournal.com]

Hrm, were Lily's parents wizards? I thought they were Muggles... If they are Muggles, then Petunia isn't a Squib, she's just a Muggle, too.

Damn it, I hate being a Muggle! How come I didn't get an Owl when I was 11? :(

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Hrm, were Lily's parents wizards? I thought they were Muggles... If they are Muggles, then Petunia isn't a Squib, she's just a Muggle, too.

That's why I was wondering. I assumed they were Muggles too, when I first read the book, but now I wonder. Don't know why it took me four books to wonder, but it did. ;-)

If they'd been wizards though, she probably wouldn't have mentioned it, because then *she'd* be the freak in the family, not Lily, not Harry.

If Petunia came from wizard stock, would Uncle Vernon have married her? It's one thing for your wife's sister to be a black sheep, and yet another for your wife to have been born of magical parents.

That'd actually be a neat little psychological twist.

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[mostlikelyto.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think Lily's parents ARE Muggles. At the end of the fourth book, Harry is telling Voldemort why he can't touch Harry, and he says something like, "It's because my mother died for me, my common, Muggle-born mother."

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

"It's because my mother died for me, my common, Muggle-born mother."

Good Lord, woman, you're a walking HP encyclopedia! I'm impressed. :-)

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[mostlikelyto.livejournal.com]

Dude... I. Am. OBSESSED. :)