Lily's and James' Parents

[queen_astrofiammante]

No: HPFGUIDX 84935


smaragdina5 wrote: 
>I just read a theory (on mugglenet.com editorial) that Lily and 
Petunia's parents were SQUIBS.  That covers all the bases.  I suppose 
we will find out!

Now for Astrofiammante's pet theory about Lily Evans' parents (settle 
down comfortably).

I have spent hours trying to work out how Lily Evans could be 
technically muggle-born but still related to wizards, in order either 
to tie Harry and Lily to Voldemort or to relate Lily Evans and that 
elusive creature Perseus Evans (who I do not believe for one minute 
is accidental, although I agree he might be a red herring).

I do think it is very important that Lily is more or less muggle-born 
because to 'redeem' her from any supposed impurity of blood and to 
upset the balance that sees each of the three Trio members as pure-
blood, halfblood and muggle-born seems to be to be utterly against 
the spirit of the books. And I believe JKR has confirmed more than 
once that she was not from a wizarding family

Squibs or a muggle/squib relationship do seem possibilities. In my 
personal musings, this muggleish parent with wizarding links is 
labelled "Squib Evans".

Now we need a suitable candidate for Squib Evans. Has any squib 
relative of any wizarding family ever been casually mentioned in 
passing?

Why yes, near the beginning of CoS, when Ron mentions that 
cousin/second cousin (apologies for not being able to remember which) 
of Molly Weasley's who no-one ever talks about, who became an 
accountant.

And we know Molly is from one of the Pureblood families, but we have 
no clue which one. Molly Black? Molly Malfoy? Even Molly Potter? The 
possibilities are endless. We're also short on descriptions of 
colouring for Molly - read the "red-headed Weasley" descriptions and 
you'll see they never definitively either refer to her or omit her. 
Not accidental, I don't think.

The question "What is Molly's maiden name" would be close to the top 
of my personal list to put to JKR.

How about Molly's accountant cousin/second cousin for Squib Evans, 
father (to preserve the surname) of Lily and Petunia Evans? A 
relationship which Molly is perfectly clear about, because she is so 
possessive over Harry, especially with Sirius?

Why, you will ask, is Harry not then living with Molly and still 
benefiting from the blood magic that Petunia can offer?

Because being cousin/second cousin to Harry's grandfather 
(cousin/second cousin twice removed to Harry?) is a pretty tenuous 
relationship, and nothing like so good as being his aunt, in blood 
magic terms. And not one of us believes that we know the whole story 
about Petunia and that spell anyway.

(In the pre-OotP frenzy, I was so busy trying to come up with a 
General and Unifying Theory of Everything that I had Narcissa Malfoy 
tied into this. I had spotted that she was Someone but unfortunately 
the wrong Someone - Narcissa Evans. How desperate were we then? But 
it sat so well next to Lily and Petunia.)

Can anyone think of any more squibs left casually lying about? I also 
think we get some pretty detailed information about Arthur's family 
in OotP's "The Ancient and Noble House of Black," but that's a whole 
different post...

I'm pretty sure that when we know How They Are Related, we will know 
the whole thing.

And one last tip. If little, victimised Mark Evans ever does turn up 
at Hogwarts (which I am pretty sceptical about, but maybe slightly 
less sceptical than I used to be) I predict the expression on old 
Severus Snape's face at that first school feast might be quite 
revealing.

Astrofiammante