Lily not related to the Weasleys

[gintonic3103]

No: HPFGUIDX 56804

Quote from Linda's post:
 
Is it just coincidence that Lily, like the entire Weasley family, has 
red hair? ..... (snipped)
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Hi all, 

I've been reading the numerous posts regarding how Lily may be 
related to the Wealseys because of their hair colour. I've only 
included the above quote because honestly, the later quotes 
concerning the second or third cousins theory is getting way too 
complicated for me!:-)

To be honest, I don't really believe Lily and the Wealseys to be 
related, particularly on account of only their hair colour. But, even 
if we argue on the single basis of hair colour, they are probably not 
related. 

First, in PS (UK Edition, p69), Harry mentions that all the four 
boys (the Weasleys boys) had "flaming" red hair. In CoS, he also 
mentions seeing Ginny Wealsey in the Great Hall before the sorting, 
standing out from the crowd because of her flaming or vivid (sorry, I 
don't have a copy of CoS with me now) red hair. If one were to keep 
strictly to the description of "flaming", this implies that their 
hair is a bright reddish orange hue like the colour of flames.  

Secondly, in PS (UK Edition, p153), when Harry sees Lily in 
the Mirror of Erised, he comments that his mother had "dark red" 
hair. This is in my opinion, distinctly different from flaming red 
hair which is a lighter shade (correct me if I'm wrong; I live 
in Asia so I don't have much contact with redheads:-)). If anything, 
it is more likely that Dumbledore is related to Lily based on hair 
colour, since Dumbledore's hair is described in CoS as 
being "auburn", which is a darker shade of red like Lily's hair 
was. 

Still, I'm rather cautious about assuming relations between 
characters on account of hair colour. We may be extrapolating 
too much; we could then speculate if any other brown haired 
character (don't forget we don't know the hair colour of many of the 
other charactersin the Harry Potter series ) is related to Harry.

"Anne"