Is Petunia Really Muggle?

Brenda Agent_Maxine_is at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 26 20:48:21 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 102937

>>> Lee wrote:
> <<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mrs. Lee Storm wrote: ...Think 
> about it...her words were about how proud her parents were to have 
a 
> witch in the family.  Perhaps someone from either her mother's side 
> or her father's had been a wizard.>>>
> 
> In response The Sergeant Majorette says:
> 
> Exactly what I thought from the very beginning! The theory I 
> subscribe to (in my fanfiction, at least) is that the Evanses are 
> Pureblood Squibs descended from Slytherin. Well, JKR shot down the 
> last part by stating categorically that Lily was *not* descended 
from Salazar, but still...
> 
> Maybe it's Petunia who disappointed the family by marrying a Muggle 
> instead of another Squib. Maybe it was Petunia and not Lily who was 
> estranged from her family.


Bren now:

Certainly I'm missing something. Aren't we repeatedly told that Lily 
was a Muggle-born? And that's one of the reasons Harry was marked by 
Voldemort -- because Harry was half-blood like himself?

And if someone from either her mother's side or her father's had been 
a wizard then I would think it was *natural* that Lily had magical 
abilities. This doesn't fit with Petunia's "Oh, mom and dad were 
PROUD - we have a witch in our family!" (although this is Petunia's 
interpretation, so it might have been less drastic)

Bren





More information about the HPforGrownups archive