Lily WAS muggle-born and what happened in CoS.

[kempermentor]

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sad1199 wrote:

I've been reading through 1-5 again and found some answers and some 
questions. I'm reading the U.S. Scholastic version Chamber of Secrets-
1999.

In regards to Lily's family. Page 316 "No one knows why you lost 
your powers when you attacked me," Harry said abruptly. "I don't know 
myself. But I know why you couldn't kill(italicized) me. Because my 
mother died to save me. My common Muggle-born(italicized)mother," he 
added shaking with suppressed rage.
So, reading this, I believe we know that Lily's parents were muggles. 
If she had some wizard (or Elvin! I really like this!) blood 
somewhere in her ancestry, it was NOT her parents.


Kemper responds:

While the quote is canon, it is also from the POV of Harry, who has 
grown up with Petunia.  

She has not talked about her parents except to say how much they 
talked about Lily and how proud they were to have a witch in the 
family, and this she hasn't mentioned until his 11th birthday.  Based 
on her behavior throughout the books I would guess that she has 
avoided speaking about her parents at all in front of Harry and 
especially in front of Vernon and Diddy.

JKR has said in some interview (sorry, I don't have the link) that 
Lily's was from Muggle parentage.  That seems an odd way to put it.  
Why not just come out and say "Lily's parents were Muggles"?  My 
Webster's defines parentage as 'derivation or descent from parents or 
ancestors.'  

My theory is that Lily and Petunia mostly come from Muggles and that 
one of their parents was a Squib the other one a Muggle.  Lily turns 
out to be a witch and Petunia turns out to be a Squiggle.  Petunia, 
having a Squib in the family, is aware of the WW and knows that 
Dementors guard Azkaban and gets that Voldemort returning is bad for 
everyone.  My theory expands further to what JKR has said about 
someone developing magic late in life... it's Petunia.  She will 
(knowingly or ignorantly)use what she abhors most (magic) to protect 
what she love most (Dudley, and maybe Vernon).

I don't think this theory is unreasonable.  I'm open to reading some 
feedback.