Is Petunia Really Muggle?

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 102939

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brenda" wrote: ...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!">>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

We are "repeatedly told" a lot of stuff that turns out not to be the 
case, whether it be red herrings, mistaken POV, or deliberate lies. I 
hear Petunia's complaint more like "*Finally* we manage to produce a 
witch! Won't everybody at the next Slytherin Squib family reunion be 
absolutely *green*!"

My sense is that JKR shares my feeling that this "bloodline" thing is 
a non-issue, and we may see that magic is a perfectly natural human 
trait that everyone has to a greater or lesser degree and which 
responds to nurture, like the ability to dance or play basketball.

--JDR (who is a sort of a Squib, as she is a tall Black woman who 
cannot play basketball and had to be taught to dance.)