questions about HP (Evans?)

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 82528

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spinelli372003" 
> <spinelli372003 at y...> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Salit:
> > > No. It is said in many places that Lily was muggle-born. 
> > 
> > 
> 
>  Sherry:  
> > Where exactly (canon here please) does it say that Lily 
> > is a muggle or muggle born?  I have read all 5 of the books and 
> still 
> > don't know where it says that Lily is muggle born.  Only that her 
> > parents say "look we have a witch in the family"  and the belief 
> sort 
> > of took off but where does it say it in sentence form that they 
are 
> > muggles?
> 
> Geoff:
> There are two places which come to mind where Harry is indicated as 
a 
> half-blood:
> 
> "Because there are strange likenesses between us, Harry Potter.... 
> Both half-bloods..." Tom Riddle to Harry (COS UK edition p.233)
> 
> "Shut your mouth!" Bellatrix shrieked, "You dare speak his name 
with 
> your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's 
> tongue..." Bellatrix to Harry OOTP UK edition p.691)
> 
> Harry is a half-blood, hence Lily is a muggle. QED.
> 
> Geoff:

Also, in a chat at link--->   

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0200-
scholastic-chat.htm


It was asked:"Since Harry Potter's parents were sorcerers and Petunia 
was Harry's mother's sister. Shouldn't Petunia be a witch or 
wizard?"  With JKR's answer b eing, "No. As Hagrid explains in Book 
I, sometimes a witch or a wizard occurs in an otherwise Muggle 
family, just as a Squib is a non-magic person who occurs in an 
otherwise magic family."

JKR's categorical comparison of a squib in a Wizard family versus a 
lone muggleborn in a muggle family seems to also label the Evans 
family as "muggle".  

Arya