Lily's Family

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 107860

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HunterGreen:

Because Harry is a HALF-blood, not a muggle-born. He has a pure-blood 
father, so he's not quite a 'mudblood' (as far I as understand it, 
the term is for muggle-born witches/wizards, and I suppose it could 
be extended to the child of two muggleborns or a muggleborn and a 
muggle, etc). He's no more a 'mudblood' than Tonks is. 'Half-blood' 
can be considered an insult as well, as Bellatrix uses it that way in 
the DoM after Harry calls Voldemort by his name.
Voldemort, by the way, would probably see that disctinction as well, 
since HE is a half-blood, and refers to Harry's mother (in CoS) as 
a 'mudblood'. 

According to Ron in CoS, "Mudblood's a really foul name for someone 
who is Muggle-born - you know, non-magic parents.". But, I suppose, 
if Lily were the child of two muggleborns they might see fit to call 
her a mudblood, I just don't know if SHE would just accept that.

I take a mud-blood as being more than half muggle - either both 
parents are mugles, or one a muggle and the other maybe muggle-born

Half-blood would be born of a full-blood wizard and a muggle (or 
possible both parents muggle-born, but I'm not sure on that one)

Full-blood would be all parents grandparents and great-grandparents 
(3 generations back) are wizards/witches.

Thus lily is called a mud-blood by Snape - either both parents are 
muggles, or perhaps one is a muggle and one muggle-born.  At least 3 
of her 4 grandparents are muggles. 

Because at least one of Lily's grandparents was a muggle, Harry is 
not full-blood.  This leaves open the option that one of Lily's 
grandparents was in fact a wizard or witch - making one of her 
parents half-blood.  If Lily and James were involved enough in the 
original OOP to have defied LV 3 times, it suggests that their 
families may have been involved at least once before.  What other 
prophesies exist about their family?

I suspect Lily's magical grandparent went into hiding for some 
reason, in the muggle world.  Perhaps Lily's mother or father was a 
squib (born into the muggle world, so treated as a full-muggle by the 
wizarding world), but hoped to have a magical child to bring the 
family back into the wizarding world.  

I think the HBP will turn out to be Harry's grandparent, forced into 
hiding by Grindewald.

On a side note, it seems interesting that both Lily and Hermione 
appear to the be top of their respective classes, and both were 
muggle-born.  That must irk some of the pure-bloods!