Petunia is a *Squib*

[eric_and_lauri]

No: HPFGUIDX 58673

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, robert haberfield 
 <rhaberfield at y...> wrote:
> 
> > How about this; is aunt Petunia a squib? Were her and Lilly 
> Potter's mum and dad WW's? It would go some way towards 
> explaining her extreem anti wizard atitude. Has this been 
> discussed before?
> > 
> > Robert (the old)
> 


Our favorite theory on this (as a potter-fan family) is that one of 
Lily and Petunia's great-grandfathers was a wizard who chose to marry 
a muggle, and after having muggle offspring, chose to live in the 
muggle world.  Of course, we'd like to believe that the Grandfather 
(or great-grandfather) may have been Dumbledore.  As a man who 
respects the muggle world, he might have fallen in love with a muggle 
woman. We suppose that after the woman died and the child/children 
grew and married another muggle (or perhaps after the child grew old 
and died - Dumbledore IS 150!) Dumbledore returned to the Wizarding 
world to teach at Hogwarts. (Perhaps after defeating Grindlewald in 
1945 when he was around 100?) The muggle children/grandchildren/great-
grandchildren knew stories of the wizarding world and perhaps handed 
them down.  Imagine the surprise when Lily got her letter! Wow! A 
witch in the family - we thought that was just family legend! Then 
great surprise to discover that their wizard ancestor is still living 
and is Headmaster of Hogwarts.  Dumbledore is equally surprised to 
find that Lily has the same green eyes that his late wife had.  I 
know it's a stretch... LOL it's just a theory of ours! :)

Lauri