Lily's grandparents

Cathy Drolet cldrolet at sympatico.ca
Mon Aug 2 18:54:09 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108552

"esmith"

"On JKR's website, whilst answering a question about what constitutes 
a half-blood wizard, JKR stated that HP would be considered half-
blood due to his maternal grandparents! 

DuffyPoo:

I believe this is a mistake on JKR's part, and I will believe that until it has been there awhile.  She meant to say Harry's grandparents (I think) but that would lead to speculation about James' side of the family.  Quickly changing the answer she made a mistake and left in grandparents when it should have said "Mother's parents".  That's my theory.  (She still has the mistake about the prefects and points business which we know has been corrected by a new edition of OotP)  If it is not a mistake, it is very simple.  If Lily is the first witch in a long string of Muggles (as we have been led to believe) her grandparents were Muggles as well and JKR is using "grandparents" here to connect with "grandparents" in the next paragraph in her answer about Aryans (sp).


esmith:
"If one parent is a witch/wizard and one is a muggle - which world do 
they live in?"

DuffyPoo:

Good question.  Seamus is a half-blood and seems to know a lot about the wizarding world.  I can't think who any other half-bloods at the school are, except HP, and he's no good as an example as he was raised by Muggles.


"esmith"
<snip>

"This leads on to a number of other questions;

"(1) Does Petunia's knowledge of Azkaban stem from the fact that one 
of her parents was imprisoned there! (Hence there need to live with 
the Muggle parent)"

DuffyPoo:

"And what the ruddy hell are Dementors?" [Vernon speaking]
"They guard the wizard prison, Azkaban,' said Aunt Petunia
"How do you know that?" [Vernon] asked her, astonished.
"I heard -- that awful boy -- telling her about them, years ago," she said jerkily

As I said above, I believe Lily and Petunia's parents are Muggles.  It is what we have been led to believe through five books.


"(2) Is Godric's hollow the family home for Lily's mum or dad (and 
hence HP is descended from Gryffindor)."

DuffyPoo again:

Goderic's Hollow is a Muggle Village where Lily and James were hiding from LV.  Goderic's Hollow was the home of Bowman Wright the inventor of the Golden Snitch.  And the Lexicon says that James and Lily were living as Muggles there, in a two story cottage.  JKR has confirmed, I believe, that Goderic's Hollow is named after Goderic Gryffindor.  Personally I think Lily's parents were Muggles, regardless of how JKR wrote her answer on the website.  Lily would be a half-blood if her grandparents were Muggles but one of her parents was magical, yet she is nearly always referred to as Muggle-born or the more tasteless Mudblood.  Can't think Snape would mix up Mudblood and half-blood.


(3) Is this theory absolute twaddle???"


DuffyPoo:

Well, I don't know about twaddle, but that last question certainly gave me a good laugh!




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