Harry's Family History

[Danemead]

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No: HPFGUIDX C4333
From: Danemead
Subject: Harry's Family History
Date: 7/15/00 12:45 pm  (ET)

I wonder that Harry (or Hermione, more likely) has never attempted to
research his family history. I could picture him going through the back
issues of the Daily Prophet to read about the day he became an orphan. And
with such an emphasis on purity of bloodline in the wizarding community,
surely there must be a DeBrett's for Wizards, were you can look up
everyone's family history all the way back to King Ethelred the Unready,
or whatever.

What is Lily and Petunia's maiden name? Were they children of Muggles,
or was there some wizard blood in their family prior to the appearance
of Lily (after all, Petunia says in Book 1 that her parents were PROUD
of Lily being a witch).

I realize this lack of info on Harry's ancestors is probably part of
the 7-book plot, but it's curious to me that they've never tried to look
it up. Perhaps it would be intriguing for Hermione to ATTEMPT a little
research and discover that she couldn't find a thing. Hmmmm.