Aunt Petunia & Hogwarts

[rolshan2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 88325

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Julie Stevenson" wrote "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."


Agreed, I was speaking in shorthand and lost this valuable point. 
Nonetheless, I think Harry's muggle heritage is significant, as is 
his beloved mother's status as "filthy little mudblood" as Snape 
calls her.  I think the theme of "choices not birth", parallels with 
Nazism, etc. would all be diluted if it turned out Harry was from an 
old wizarding family on both sides (even with intervening squib 
generations). I also do think that a measure of parallelism to 
Voldemort's ancestry is important (even if imperfect). 

In any case, the reason for positing that Petunia is a squib is her 
suprisingly intimate knowledge of the wizarding world and to give her 
a secret the exposure of which she fears.  I was trying to propose an 
alternative explanation for the knowledge which would also consitute 
such a secret and would maintain the muggle ancestry for Harry on his 
mother's side...

ROLSHAN

ROLSHAN