Thanks for the comments; glad to hear you liked the drabbles! I am so curious about just how well Petunia knew Lily's friends. There's no sign that she knew the name Sirius Black when she heard it on the news. And she didn't seem to recognize Remus at the station in OotP, but maybe she was deliberately ignoring him, or maybe Harry just wasn't watching at the right moment.
Just to go off at a slight tangent for a sec, do you think the "awful boy" was James? Or could it be Snape? I keep reading this theory and wondering... ;)
Yep, I really wonder about that too. I feel like James is the simplest, most likely interpretation, and I've used that in a fic or two. But JKR loves her red herrings, and there's no denying that Harry responds to Petunia's that awful boy remark with something like, "If you mean my mum and dad, why don't you say their names!" -- to which no one responds, leaving the reader to assume Harry's right, in classic red-herring style.
I'm pretty sure we're going to find out that Snape loved Lily, and that's why Dumbledore trusted him. I don't think Lily loved him back, but she might have been his friend. And here's something I'd love to see in DH:
HARRY: Dumbledore? He's dead! Snape killed him! *snarls* PETUNIA: Snape...? You mean Severus? *querulously* Severus killed someone? HARRY: ...!!!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2007-04-06 05:31 pm (UTC)Just to go off at a slight tangent for a sec, do you think the "awful boy" was James? Or could it be Snape? I keep reading this theory and wondering... ;)
Yep, I really wonder about that too. I feel like James is the simplest, most likely interpretation, and I've used that in a fic or two. But JKR loves her red herrings, and there's no denying that Harry responds to Petunia's that awful boy remark with something like, "If you mean my mum and dad, why don't you say their names!" -- to which no one responds, leaving the reader to assume Harry's right, in classic red-herring style.
I'm pretty sure we're going to find out that Snape loved Lily, and that's why Dumbledore trusted him. I don't think Lily loved him back, but she might have been his friend. And here's something I'd love to see in DH:
HARRY: Dumbledore? He's dead! Snape killed him! *snarls*
PETUNIA: Snape...? You mean Severus? *querulously* Severus killed someone?
HARRY: ...!!!