My take on Lily's grandparents

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 107865

It's rather obvious to me what Jo means by that -- if Lily's parents 
were both Muggles, then all four of her grandparents were also Muggles, 
and the pure-blood fanatics can blame Lily's grandparents with impunity, 
just for being alive and spawning more Muggles.  Lily probably has 
Muggles in her family all the way back as far as it can be figured, so 
it's all *their* fault, anyway.  Dratted Muggles, popping up everywhere, 
polluting the Wizarding World when they happen to produce a witch or 
wizard, as if being able to do magic makes them 'special' . . . as if 
they were the *EQUALS* to those PURE-bloods, with no Muggles anywhere in 
their family tree (because the Muggles and Muggleborns have been burnt 
off the rosters anyway, right?).

Okay, facetiousness aside, my first sentence stands anyway.  Lily's 
grandparents, having produced Muggles, must also have been Muggles.  
Even if Jo meant to write either "Lily's parents" or "Harry's 
grandparents" and just managed to elide the two phrases instead, it 
still stands to reason that, in the warped worldview held by pure-blood 
fanatics like the Malfoys, Lily having Muggle grandparents is just as 
bad as her having Muggle parents.

Does this make sense, or have I left myself wide open to all sorts of 
retorts, here?

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Tammy Rizzo
ms-tamany at rcn.com