Petunia is not a muggle?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57429

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Monita" <valkyrievixen at y...> 
wrote:
> I am posting a lot lately aren't I.
> 
> 
> THe likeness of Filch's jealousy toward Hogwarts students and 
> Petunia's attitude to her sister is uncanny isn't it. Maybe Petunia 
> is not a muggle at all. Has Harry ever met or been told anything 
> about his grandparents? 
> 
> Valky


I've heard the "Petunia is a Squib" theory before and I think there 
is some evidence against it. Furthermore, I would hate it to happen.

First, the evidence.

pg 44 PS UK

"... (Lily) came home every holiday with her pockets full of frog-
spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for 
what she was -- a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was 
Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the 
famiy." - Aunt Petunia.

1) Aunt Petunia referring to Lily as a "freak" when, to be a Squib, 
she'd have had to be surrounded by witches and wizards, doesn't fit.

2) Their parents, should they be a witch and wizard themselves, would 
hardly be full of exaggerated pride over having a witch daughter. It 
would be expected, no? 

Now, why I would hate it.

I don't want Harry to be Pureblood. That simple.

The great dividing line between the conflicts between good and evil, 
Voldemort and Dumbledore, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, 
Harry and Draco, Arthur and Lucius, is the attitudes toward Muggle-
Borns.

I believe this to be a tale, at its core, about a form of racism. 
Does Harry being a pureblood make him less heroic? No, but I think 
the anti-racism message is much stronger if Harry is part-Muggle.

Please note. I am defining "pureblood" as I believe the Slytherins 
define it, meaning unbroken descent from wizards and witches. 

Technically, Harry IS pureblood in that Lily was a witch and James 
was a wizard, but, if Lily's parents were Muggles, then he descends 
from Muggles on his mother's side. (Riddle refers to him as half-
Muggle at one point, but wouldn't it be more like quarter-Muggle?) 

Darrin
-- Quarter Muggle. Would that be called a Muggle Royale in France?