Penseive, Slytherin, Lily's Parents and Time Travel
Cathy Drolet
cldrolet at sympatico.ca
Tue Aug 3 15:36:54 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 108683
Amey:
"Cover memory? Can anyone control what memories a person entering the penseive see? I mean you can choose memories out of penseive (as dumbledore does), but how can you control an intruder? And if it is true, does it mean that Dumbledore wanted Harry to see the trials? What did it show him?"
DuffyPoo:
Does this mean that DD only showed Harry the parts of the prophecy he wanted him to see?
Amey:
"It is still there on the site, so I think it is final. But then, you don't call a half-blood (like this makes Lily) a mudblood, right? And Snape is enough knowledgeable in that respect to differentiate between a mudblood and half-blood. So unless Snape made a mistake under duress, I think Lily's parents are muggles and she is muggleborn. That makes her grandparents also muggles , right?"
DuffyPoo:
Well, it's only been a couple of weeks and the last I checked the Prefects/Points answer was still there as well, although we know it has been corrected in a new edition of OotP.
I think you're right though, and I thought I posted it somewhere too, Lily's grandparents are muggles (so that is correct), and her parents are muggles as well. In PS Hagrid said 'Anyway, what does he know about it, some o' the best I ever saw were the only ones with magic in 'em in a long line o' Muggles -- look at yer mum!' We do know that Hagrid is not always correct, but he did appear to know (as we've found out through the other books) that he knew both James and Lily quite well. I can't imagine Snape making the mistake, duress or not. One thing those wizard kids know is the other kids' blood status, and the Slytherins seem to know it more so than most - of course, it's more important to them as well.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
More information about the HPforGrownups
archive