Vernon a squib??

[Oiled Lamp <oiledlamp@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Claire <ophelia12uk at y...>" 
<ophelia12uk at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop 
> <fredwaldrop at y...>" <fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Me;(Fred Waldrop)
> > 
> > I admit I have not read the books as many times as others, only 
3 
> > times, but I do not remember reading in the books where Lily and 
> > Petunia (The Evans) came from a "Muggle" family. I would really 
> like 
> > to know where this is said in the HP books. 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
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> -> Fred Waldrop
> 
> When Harry confronts Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets he says "My, 
> common, muggle-born mother" is probably the best instance, but I 
> think there are a couple of others.
> 
> Claire.

And in Diagon Alley, after Harry has just bought his school robes 
and met Draco for the first time, Hagrid says:

"Anyway, what does he know about it, some o' the best I ever saw 
were the only ones with magic in 'em in a long line o' Muggles -- 
look at yer mum! Look what she had fer a sister!"

Canon seems to indicate, at least up to this point, that Lilly came 
from a Muggle family. Who knows what her distant relations are, 
though. As Ron points out in CS, there was a great deal of 
intermarriage between wizards and muggles, and no one can be 
completely sure how "pureblood" their ancestry is. It might be 
revealed that all the Muggle-borns have wizarding blood back there 
somewhere, and that all the wizards likewise have muggle parentage 
in their family trees. More than likely Lilly's ancestry will play 
just as much an important part in Harry's destiny as the Potters, 
even if they turn out to be "just" Muggles.

Amber