Red Hair, Weasleys and Evanses

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No: HPFGUIDX 95515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ariadnedrue" 
<ariadnedrue at y...> wrote:
> Just wondering...
> 
> A lot of people talk about connections with the number 12, socks, 
> etc.  Does anyone think that JK stresses the fact that Lily has red 
> hair, to maybe thinking she has a distant connection with the 
> Weasley's?  Like the Weasley's cousing (?) that no one talks about? 
I 
> tried to see if this has been mentioned before, but I couldn't find 
> anything.

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I couldn't work out the best way to snip and comment to some of the 
other replies, so I upthreaded all the way to here!

Well, there are quite a few who fit in the red haired family: 
Weasleys, Dumbledore, Lily, any one else? (Does Crookshanks count?)   
For dark or black we have McGonagall, Snape, Sirius, Harry.  I've 
wondered if hair color was just a discription or if it had any 
connection to magic, something like noses, fingers and wands?

Red hair in all it's many hues is very common in the part of the U.S. 
where I grew up. (South Eastern)  But then, most of us are Scot-
Irish.  And along that theme, the Irish are considered to have a 
close connection to the magic world. (At least, that's what my family 
claimed!)
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