Some Discrepancies

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 86390

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Miller" 
<constancevigilance at y...> wrote:
> 
> If those in the mirror are magical, then the mirror seems to be 
> claiming that Lily's family is magical. But there is plenty of 
> canonical evidence ("Muggle-born Lily") to the contrary. If the 
> mirror is simply showing Lily's family, then where is Petunia? I 
> think it is showing Harry's idealized idea of what his family 
would 
> look like. Lily's and James' relatives, minus Petunia who he 
hates, 
> show up smiling at him. I just don't see how we can apply this as 
> hard proof to conclude that these people ever existed. The mirror 
> lies.
> 
> Constance Vigilance

All the mirror shows is Harry's greatest desire--to have a real 
family.   The Evanses would be part of the family, so it's very 
likely they would show up with the Potters.  However, it might be a 
bit more likely that Harry has seen pictures of the the other Evans 
side having grown up with Petunia--surely she has photos of people 
besides "Duddikins" around--say like her parents.   So it's possible 
that the Evans are depicted acurately.

Serena