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
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