Petunia and Lily half sisters?

[RhianynTheCat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 71408

Rhianyn lazily tosses out a bright shiny playtoy formerly presented in an 
earlier post and watches attentively to see if any others enjoy batting it 
around:

> In a message dated 7/14/2003 7:33:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> lupinwolf2001 at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> >We know that her (and Lily's) parents were both proud that Lily had a 
> >magical background. There is no mention if Lily and Petunia's parents 
> >themselves (one or both) were of the WW. 
> 
> Rhianyn has an odd thought as she dozes by the fire:
> 
> Suppose Lily and Petunia were only _half sisters_?   This brings up many 
> interesting ideas.  Depending on who is the eldest, p'raps Lily came from a 
> first 
> marriage to someone from the wizarding world, who possibly met a bitter end 
> due to magic, thereby prejudicing the widowed/dowered spouse forever to 
> magic.  
> Or if she is the youngest, p'raps the person from the wizarding world was 
> the 
> "homewrecker" which would explain a lot of Petunias prejudice.  It would 
> also 
> conveniently explain the great difference in appearance between the girls.  
> I 
> tend to think of the mother as the common parent as they both have flowery 
> names and that seems to me something a woman would carry from one marriage 
> to the 
> next.  But then of course, p'raps there was no second marriage and one of 
> the 
> sisters is illegitimate .... the plot thickens even more :)
> 
> 
:::Curls fluffy black tail about herself just _so_ and returns to napping by 
the fire::::
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