Lineage

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90590

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mrsbrooksathome"
<mrsbrooksathome at y...> wrote:
> I would really be interested in knowing Harry's geneology.  Does 
> anyone happen to know anything about it?  I recall someone saying 
> that Lily was a mudblood... so which side was her magical parentage 
> on?  And was James a pureblood?  I seem to think he was, but I can't 
> seem to remember whether or not this is actually supported by any 
> actual evidence.  
> 
> Steph

Lily is a Muggle-born, so there wouldn't be any *known* wizarding
heritage on either side. But because of the appearance of Mark Evans
in OoP (an apparent Muggle but just the right age to come to Hogwarts
next year if he, too, turns out to be a Muggle-born with Magical
powers), I think that a few generations back there must have been a
wizard or witch in the Evans line, maybe with Squib children who
passed as Muggles, married Muggles, and produced Muggle children, so
that even Dumbledore doesn't know about Lily's and Mark's magical
ancestor (who would also, of course, be Harry's, Petunia's, and
Dudley's ancestor).

As for James, he wasn't a Muggle-born so his parents must have been a
witch and a wizard. And since there's no evidence that either of his
parents was Muggle-born, so he was probably a pure-blood (or at any
rate a full-blood, if you make that distinction). As his parents seem
to have been wealthy (JKR says that James's money was inherited), I'm
guessing that yes, James was a pureblood.