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It is interesting that Dumbledore's Howler says "Remember my last" instead of "Remember my letter." The implication here is that there have been more letters than the single one which we have seen, left with Harry on the doorstep [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 1|at the beginning of the series]]. It is not until [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 33|the final book of the series]] that we learn that Dumbledore had written a letter to Petunia earlier, refusing her entry into Hogwarts. We learn at the same time that much of Petunia's understanding of the Wizarding world actually comes, not from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|Harry's father]], as we would expect given her apparent dislike of "that awful boy", but [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Severus Snape]], who at the time was telling [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter|Lily Evans]], Petunia's sister and later Harry's mother, what to expect in the Wizarding world. In retrospect this makes sense: we will find out [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 28|later in this book]] that Lily hated James Potter late in their fifth year, so cannot have taken up with him until, at the earliest, their sixth year. By that time, Petunia no doubt has done as much as she could to distance herself from Lily and her magical abilities, and would not care to speak with James in any event.
We never do learn if there has been any ongoing communication between Dumbledore and Petunia, but given the surprise she shows when Harry's Hogwarts letter arrives [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 3|in the first book,]] we can safely assume that there has been no communication in the intervening years. As mentioned in the Analysis section above, there is apparently a letter that Dumbledore sends to "Harry's family" following the episode of the flying car in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''. That letter, concerned as it must be with disciplinary matters, is unlikely to be the one the Howler here refers to: whatever "last" communication the Howler is talking about, reminding Petunia of its contents is enough to make her change her mind about Harry's eviction quite suddenly, and a letter threatening him with expulsion is unlikely to have such an effect. It is possible that this is a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marcus Flint|"flint"]], one of the small errors that have crept into the series; it is also possible that the author felt that a letter addressed to the family (and thus Vernon) does not count towards correspondence with Petunia.
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