Evans family

[Allison Hill]

No: HPFGUIDX 72702

Hello all,
I'm new and this is kind of long, though I've tried to be methodical, so 
please bear with me.

I am wondering if anyone has given any thought to the idea that Lily Evans 
is the one that came from the magical family, not James Potter.  It seems to 
me that we're being misdirected because Petunia is vehemently against the 
wizarding world and therefore the assumption is made that her family is not 
from it.

I just skimmed through SS to find refutation of my theory but have not 
gotten to the rest of the books yet.  Now, I have found 3 key mentions of 
the Evanses.  The first was during Petunia's tirade in the house on the rock 
in the sea when Hagrid arrives.  She mentions that her parents "were proud 
of having a witch in the family!"  But there's nothing clearly stating that 
they themselves weren't ones as well.  The second time is when Hagrid is 
talking to Harry about new students from Muggle families doing just as well 
as new kids from magical families.  He mentions Lily, "Look what she had fer 
a sister!"  He's clearly talking about Petunia as Lily's sister and not 
Petunia as Harry's aunt.  Why would Hagrid have met some random student's 
Muggle sister?

The third mention is at the Mirror of Erised.  Harry "saw other pairs of 
green eyes like his."  Remember, he looks like his dad with his mother's 
eyes.  Would non-magical family members, dead or alive, show up in a magical 
devise like the mirror?

The idea that the Evanses are the magical family bolsters several other 
delicious theories I've encountered.  If young Mark Evans is from the 
magical side of the family, that would explain why Harry doesn't know of the 
shirt-tail relation, because Petunia certainly wouldn't keep in touch with 
Those People.  There's also the idea of Severus Snape being an anagram for 
his real name, Perseus Evans.  (See 
http://www.mugglenet.com/editorials/gryffindortower/gt10.shtml for an 
excellent synopsis of this theory.)  It certainly is less far fetched if the 
Evans family is the magical one.  And it could mean that Snape is "that 
awful boy" Petunia overhears talking about Azkaban, since James would have 
been a young man by the time he and Lily started dating and he and Petunia 
may have met.

Have we ever been told explicitly anything about James' family?  There is 
yet another great theory about Albus Dumbledore being Harry's 
great-grandfather.  (See Who are Harry's family at 
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/puzzles.html for the redhead connection suggesting 
he's Lily's grandfather behind this one.)  He could only be the maternal 
grandfather of either James or Lily in order for the last name to not have 
been passed on.  If Lily's mother is a squib who married a wizard, and 
there's certainly proof of squibs--Figgy!--living amongst Muggles, that 
would help to explain Dumbledore's compassion for the miscellaneous motley 
characters he collects at Hogwarts.

Anyway, there it is.  We've all been assuming that Lily is the muggle-born 
and James is the pureblood wizard based on Petunia not being a witch.  But 
we also all know that Rowling tosses in red herrings.  Let me know what you 
think or if you can find any more evidence for or against.

Until later,
Belsum

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