Red Hair, Weasleys and Evanses

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 95724

 "ariadnedrue" 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.


Mandy here:
I don't know if there is a connection.  Although we do know that the 
Weasleys and the Blacks are related, and the Black to the Malfoys and 
so on, and so on.  Lily did not come from a pureblood family although 
she could have done in the distant past.  The WW seems small enough 
for every one to be related to everyone else at some point.

As for the redhair?  I'm a proud British Redhead. Southern, England 
born but my family came from Yorkshire and before that Scotland and 
before that we were Vikings!  Natural red, blue eyes very fair skin, 
Celtic to the core.  Not sure that I like being considered an 
aberration though.  ;-)  But I suppose I am.  

Redhair and witches go together like bread and butter. It's a very 
common association going all the way back into history.  In puritan 
Salem in the USA, and in parts of medieval Europe, babies were killed 
at birth (sometimes thrown on the fire!) if they had redhair, not to 
motion and any woman who made it adulthood with redhair was an 
instant target during the witchcraft hysteria.  Anne Rice in her 
Witches books talks about redhair being the number one sign of a 
witch.  And in almost every child's book about witches, they are 
drawn with redhair.  This is something I've been proud of since I was 
a little girl, especially when kids would make fun of me I would 
simply believe I was a witch and could hex them into oblivion. I 
still do sometimes. ;-)  

JKR also has an affinity with redhair and witches, which is why she 
has so many of us in her books as witches and wizards.  Where this 
came from in her though, I couldn't say. 

Mandy, a proud redheaded witch.