Speaking up for Petunia

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 84378

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer" <mookie1552 at a...> 
wrote:
> I agree with oiboyz in the fact that Dudley is not a wizard, 
because 
> I agree that Dumbledore would not deny any magical person their 
> birthright.  Although, what I could see had happened is that 
Petunia 
> is a squib.  Look how bitter it has made Filtch.  Being denied what 
> her sister had could have made her hate what she really wanted the 
> most.  Petunia hates her sister and hates magic why?  Because she 
was 
> denied it, she could never be like her sister and never would have 
> the ablities of her sister.  Who is older?  Petunia or Lily?  Have 
we 
> ever found out?  If Petunia is older and her parents had a squib, 
no 
> wonder in Petunia's mind that her parents were proud to have a 
witch 
> in the family because they didn't with her.  She is jealous through 
> and through.

Didn't Snape call Lily a "mudblood" and hasn't JKR herself referred 
to Harry as a "half-blood"?  In other words one parent was a 
wizard/witch and the other was a muggle (or in this case muggleborn).

Lily was a witch, not a muggle, I would think that would make Harry a 
full-blooded wizard, but apparently in the purity conscious WW having 
a muggleborn parent still makes you a "half-blood".

Lily was a muggleborn witch which would make her parents muggles.
Since squibs are only born in magical families, Petunia doesn't 
qualify as a squib.

Yolanda