Speaking up for Petunia, half-blood, squibs

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84429

Jennifer <mookie1552 at a...> wrote:
> <snip> what I could see had happened is that Petunia is a 
> > squib.  <snip> 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.  <snip>

Yolanda: 
> 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.


Dumbledore himself refers to Harry as a "half blood," in contrast to
Neville, who is a "pure blood" (end of OoP when he's explaining the
prophecy). He thinks it's significant that Voldemort went after the
child whose parentage resembled his own.

I have some theories about the intermarriage of muggles and squibs
passing as muggles a few generations back in Lily's family in relation
to Mark Evans (who has to be somehow related to Harry, but so
distantly that Dumbledore can refer to Petunia as Harry's "only living
relative"). I think that Lily and Petunia's father may have had a
wizard grandfather or great grandfather (the magic has to be in the
male line because of the last name) and that this same person is an
ancestor of Mark Evans. (Yes, I know I'm just speculating.) But as for
Petunia herself being a squib, clearly not.

Carol