Aunt Petunia & Hogwarts

[Julie Stevenson]

No: HPFGUIDX 88323

Rolshan said:
>2. The support in the books that she and Lily are in fact from a
>muggle family and that Harry is not a descendant of a pure wizarding
>family but is half and half like Voldemort (I think this contradicts
>the "squib or descendant of squibs" theory) and the importance of
>that to the theme of the books.

Harry is not a 'half & half' or 'halfblood' like Seamus Finnegan or Tom 
Riddle. In both of those cases, the mother of Seamus & Tom was a witch, and 
the father was a muggle.

In Harry's case, his mother was a muggle-born witch (at least, that's what 
we're led to believe), and his father was a wizard-born wizard. In order for 
Harry to be a halfblood, one of those parents would've had to have been a 
muggle, and we know that both Lily & James Potter were magical 
because...they both went to Hogwarts.

So when Tom Riddle/Voldemort compares Harry's parentage to himself at the 
end of Chamber of Secrets, either he's wrong/confused, or he's deliberately 
downgrading Lily Evans-Potter from the status of muggle-born witch to just 
plain muggle. But the real evidence shows that Harry is a full-blooded 
wizard. Remember the discussion between Harry & Draco in Madam Malkin's in 
Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone where Draco asks about Harry's parentage, and 
Harry responds, "My parents were a wizard and a witch, if that's what you 
mean." And Draco's satisfied with that and doesn't sneer at this background.

-- Julie

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