Who were the Potters?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 45922

In a message dated 29/10/2002 14:09:57 Eastern Standard Time, 
jprobins at ix.netcom.com writes:
> I thought that it was made pretty clear in COS that Harry was not 
> considered a "mudblood".  Why would anyone consider a non-pureblood to be 
> the heir of Slytherin?  Also, I do not think that we know whether Lily came 
> from a magical family or not, do we?  My impression in that past was that 
> she was muggle-born, but Petunia does make a statement in PS about how 
> happy their parents were when Lily turned out to be a witch.

Well Petunia's actual words are that her parents were proud of having "a" 
witch in the family, as in singular.  I also believe that JK has confirmed in 
an interview that Lily was muggle-born.  Now that I think about it, you're 
right about the mudblood thing though.  Hermione is called a mudblood, so 
that is synonomous with being muggle-born.  For some reason I was equating it 
with being half-wizard, half-muggle.  Still, Voldemort would disapprove of 
James, a pureblood, marrying Lily, a muggle-born (or mudblood).  And yes, 
Voldemort, the Slytherin heir himself, is half-muggle.  Hitler was also half 
Jewish, so I've heard.  

Audra


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