the letter placed with little harry by dumbeldore explained many, many things. But wasn't it "his last".Surly harry's anunt would have some questions..... then again what if uncle vernon put out the milk bottles therefore finding harry and also opened the letter. What if he did open the letter.... could he be trusted to keep the biggest secret in the history of the world?????

Dumbeldore's letter must of been adressed to just harry's aunt ,the letter left with little harry wasn't (i don't think). Dumbeldore wouldn't have the left the letter knowing that it could of got into the wronge hands.......

"the last" would of been proberly sent by owl when uncle vernon was at work...... that way he wouldn't know.

do you think i'm right? or have i totally mucked up.......

thanks kesa

great post and great question, padf00t!!

since i like to post JK's quote's, here goes the one about the howler :)

the question was:
What did Dumbledore's Howler to Aunt Petunia mean? ('Remember my last'?)

phew...that was rather long!

I think JK makes it clear in this quote that the last letter adressed to Aunt Petunia alone was the one left with baby harry. seems a bit strange to me, cause like you said, padf00t, Vernon could have found it first. i think there is NO way he would not read it or at least have his wife tell him what it says! after all, the letter came with his baby nephew laying on his doorstep!

kesa, I agree with what you say....it would make more sense. but i understood the quote that way, that the letter left with baby harry was addressed to petunia alone. i'm repeating myself :P


and what do you mean by:

i don't think vernon would go around telling poeple about harry or the letter or anything to do with wizards (and we see it in every book that he is trying hard to hide everything i just named). so i think the secret would be safe :D

the only explanation i can come up with is that petunia never showed vernon the letter. we know she was the one that found harry. this is what it says at the end of chapter one in SS/PS:

but still, imagine you find a baby on your doorstep....would your first reaction (after screaming) be to grab the letter and hide it from your husband? and surely vernon would have been by her side in no time...

but this has gotten long enough and i'm rambling on....

I dont think there is anything exciting in the letter personally

For some reason I feel like you guys are missing the point here. Remember my last means that the letter explaining Harry's arrival at the Dursley house was not his only letter to Petunia. Otherwise he would have simply said, "Remember my letter." Evidentally Petunia and DD had been in contact before this time. The question is...what were they in contact about? This only adds to the mystery of Petunia in my opinion.

It does only add to the mystery. As for why no one else could've taken the letter: hello, DD=powerful magic. What the heck why not put a spell on the letter!?
Well, JK did say that Petunia ISN'T a SQUIB but that doesn't rule out the possibility that the lady's a witch. Maybe when Lily died, DD sent her a letter. But I really don't get Petunia at all. She hates magic, yet because of some threat or something she takes Harry in, endangering her whole family. And wat kind of threat could DD issue that would cause her to do such a thing? :unsure: :blink:

I know! I know! (well, not really, but here's a theory for ya :D)

Petunia really is a witch.....(i wrote in the "is aunt petunia a witch" thread that she defenitly is not, but after reading over my posts again i changed my mind....so she could be :P ).....but she didn't want to be one! i don't know why she wouldn't want to be, i'm sure we could come up with plenty of reasons. SO when she got the invitation to hogwarts she just didn't reply or just wrote back, ya know, "thanks, but no thanks"....something like that :P . so DD decided to get in contact with her .....maybe he even thought she was very talented. we heard often enough that lily was . DD urged her to come to hogwarts. B)

as to what could have made her take harry in? at first i was like "that is a good question! never really thought about it. :unsure: " and even tho it is still a good question i have an idea now :P . DD made her take harry



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or he would tell uncle vernon that she is magical :o

:lol: what do ya think?

May be, you know he sais remember my last, may be he meant last letter obviously, because he sent her a howler, may be the letter was really a howler 15 years ago. remember my last (meaning last one?)

Good point, sorta like a play on words.
good theory SA, there's something fishy about it (sorry FISH)...can they really refuse... i mean i kno they don't have to go to hogwarts or anything, but they'll have to go to some kind of school. also i think LV would have known of a muggle born witch, especially if he'd killed her sister. maybe he'll be after her soon

Yea... Like a play on words....

May be its nothing..... may be it is.....

SA - very nice point in deed...

I don't think you can say no to being a witch or wizard i mean, you are who you are and you can't change that! But i always thought that she was a little jelous (sp?) of lily, and if she could have been a witch, then i would think she probably would have been one. She said in the PS that her parents were so proud to have a witch in the family, and wouldn't she want her parents to be proud of her instead maybe? Just a thought...

I think Dumbledore's "last" explained to Petunia why Harry has to stay at the house, because after the Howler Petunia told Vermon that Harry had to stay in the house.

maybe theres a completely different reason that petunia took him in. like you said, wouldn't she want her parents to be proud of her instead maybe? maybe she DID do something to make her parents proud of her. or so she thought. maybe what she did, was actually do something to hurt lily emotionally. maybe the reason that she took him in is because she owes it to her sister, and DD knows about it, and was reminded of that. thats just my thoughts.

You know, it would make sence, if she owed her sister for something she did, then that would be a good way to make it up to her. I mean what better thing would you be able to do than take care of somebody's child after that person has passed on?

hah. wow. i cant believe someone actually agreed with my idea...i was just throwing it out there to be tossed and turned in the ocean we call whatever. wow..

We do know that for some reason, Harry is the safest when he is at the Dursley's home. I think DD kinda explained it in book 5 in part of the prophecy. Since Petunia is a blood relative, some sort of magic protects them. I think that maybe that's another reason why Petunia agreed to take them in, cuz her family would be protected by this magic too.

I agree that harry is probably the safest at the Dursley's. Maybe Dumbledore put him there so LV couldn't track him and kill him, like he's wanted to do for the last 15 years. I mean if he was walking around in the wizarding world, wouldn't one of LV's deatheaters see him, or figure out where he lives? That would make him more vonerable, like say if they knew he was weak or injured or something, they could just come busting in there and kill him.

he woulda been the safest and is the safest in hogwarts....!!!!!

Yeah, but could you have a little kid running around hogwargs all the time? And how much would it such to grow up in a school? Well...that might not have been such a problem, but dumbledore didn't want harry to know until he was ready, and taking him to hogwarts would definatly let him know, i mean being there with all the witches and wizards.

i guess he is off better with the dursley's

Isnt Harry safest at the Dursleys because Petunia is his family and with her there,she can protect him?!Im sure she must still love Harry,even if she doesnt know or want to!

umm. i don't think so. because after voldie came back he borke the spell that protected harry. because each year the spell was renewed, so if it still worked, then harry should have technically been un touchable when voldie came back.

yeah good point

Yeah,i suppose...But then why did Harry say that he was gonna go back there one last time?(I think he said that,pls correct me if im wrong!)

yeah he did! i dk why ?

Dum,dum,dum!!!
I wonder...

who doesn't!!!

I don't know either. I had this long explanation and of course, I forgot...