[HPforGrownups] Re: Was Lily Potter a gorgon?

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32094

At 6:35 PM +0000 12/22/01, virtualworldofhp wrote:
>
>Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who DOESN'T think Petunia is a
>Squib & Lily was, in fact, a normal Muggle-born like Hermione.
>Perhaps we should found a S.P.I.N.O. (Squib--Petunia is not one!)
>organization, two Sickles for membership, along with complementary
>brochere: _Squibs, a Magical Rarity_.

Here's my two sickles; count me in!  I think it takes away quite a 
bit of poignance from the Trio to make Harry a pureblood.  As it 
stands, HHR are an example of a pureblood, a Muggle-born, and a 
halfblood, all working together quite well, and as such an example 
for the rest of the student about the unimportance of blood-purity.

It subtracts from the disturbing resemblances between Riddle and 
Harry to take away the "both half-bloods" similarity.

It makes James and Lily a bit less romantic and tragic if they're 
both purebloods - I've always assumed that James got a cartain 
ammount of flack for "diluting the bloodline" when he married Lily, 
driving the young lovers even closer together in the face of a 
hostile world.

And, last, I don't think Vernon would have ever married Petunia if 
not only her black-sheep sister but her whole family were that 
abnormal.  :)

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