Purebloods, and Wands

[cornflower_o_shea]

No: HPFGUIDX 31689

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Aja Fair Romano <aromano at i...> wrote:
> Jessie said:
> 
> > I truely wonder if Lily's family are actually wizards.  Harry 
may just THINK 
> > that she is from a muggle family because he only has his aunt 
Petunia to go 
> > off of.  Where is the rest of his family?  I can't see that they 
would all be 
> > dead, mother's OR father's side, unless Voldemort went to work 
annhialating 
> > all of them.


> 
> Hear, hear! I've had a theory ever since one late late night at 
Steak and
> Shake (local college-town all-night diners: where the real
> earth-shattering conspiracies begin).  What evidence do we have 
that
> Petunia isn't a squib?? Petunia says that her mother and father 
were
> "so proud" of Lily, but that she considers Lily a freak.  It's 
entirely
> possible, I think, that Lily could have had at least one wizard 
for a
> parent.
Cornflower responds:
Well, if Hagrid actually knows what's going on then the theory can 
be discounted, as he mentions that "some of the best wizards come 
from muggle families" (sorry, paraphrase) when taking about Lily. I 
think this was in CoS.

> Aja wrote:
> And since I'm on the subject of my theories I'm going to venture a
> question that's been bugging me since my first read of Book IV. I 
always
> have wondered why, if the wand chooses the wizard, the wand 
containing the
> feather of the noble and pure Fawkes chose Tom Riddle?  That truly 
baffles
> me. 

I also figured that, like many tools, the "evil" or "good" it does 
is in the hand of the user, not in the tool itself (this is a good 
metaphor for the books themselves...evil? good? It all depends on 
your point of view!) As for the phoenix feather, I assume Fawkes is 
a VERY magical creature, which explains why he is with Dumbledore. 
Assumably only a very powerful wizard could control that much magic, 
i.e. Harry or Voldie. Of course, I'm sure this is an explanation 
beyond this (What did Ollivander say to Dumby when he wrote he 
immediatly after Harry left the shop that day?), but the potentcy of 
the wands must be part of it, I think.

Cheers! 
-Cornflower O'Shea