[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Petunia Really Muggle?

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 102953

>From Brenda:
|
| 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)

[Lee]:
Well, remember that Ron of the pure-blood Weasleys mentions a muggle who's
an accountant or some profession along those lines, but they don't talk
about him.  Let's flip-flop that to the muggle realms...somewhere maybe even
a couple or so generations back might be a cousin or someone on one of the
sides of the family who might have been a witch or wizard, but it's not
generally talked about.

I don't know about y'all, but our family was incredible for keeping secrets!
To this day, the gaps in my knowledge about my father's side, in particular,
are staggering!  I can't even tell you where his side of the family comes
from, save that my grandfather came from someplace in Germany and my
grandmother from someplace in Austria.

So, a family secret? Why not...quite possible.

And, yes, Lilly and Petunia are, technically, muggle-born; their direct
parents, possibly grandparents, are muggles; but somewhere, somehow, some
knowledge existed.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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