Aunt Petunia & Hogwarts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88039

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fkilc" <fkilc at y...> wrote:
> Allysmom wrote:
> > I was looking through my copy of the 5th book, and I'm wondering if 
> > Aunt Petunia may have been invited to attend Hogwarts with Lily, 
> > but refused. 
> <snip>
> 
> Greetings to all, this is my first post !
> 
> I'm sure that others have had the same idea (I have looked a little, 
> but not much admittedly)  but  I've always thought that perhaps one 
> reason Petunia ignores the magical world is that Lily and Petunia 
> might be the daughters of squibs - that you explain her bitterness 
> that her parents were always "Lily this" or "Lily that"...  so 
> perhaps, as in Neville's case, she just wasn't quite magical enough 
> to attend Hogwarts - and maybe it comes out in the end ?
> 
> --francois


As I stated in a previous post, JKR states quite plainly in an
interview that Lily is muggle-born, meaning that her parents weren't
squibs and neither is Petunia. But see our earlier discussions of Mark
Evans, who may turn out to be a muggle-born second or third cousin of
Harry's (showing up at Hogwarts in Book 6), which would mean that
there are Squibs posing as Muggles somewhere in the Evans line, and
Wizard parents for those Squibs. Just do a site search for Mark Evans
and you'll find the relevant posts.

Carol