Grandparents redux (was Re: What am I missing?)

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 97807

> Eustace_Scrubb wrote:
> I still have to believe that [Harry's grandparents'] deaths will have some
> importance although they themselves may not...of all the gaps in our
> knowledge this frustrates my muggle logic the most...apparently alive
> and in good health when James was an upper level student at Hogwarts,
> his parents (and Lily's) are all dead within the next few years
> (roughly four, is it?) by the time Harry is orphaned.  This is just
> too much of a coincidence for me.

I too find it odd that so many parents and grandparents are dead.  
Were they caught up in the WW war?  We don't know anything about 
anyone's parents.  Where's Remus' parents?  We've been on the 
discussion re: LV and poor parenting skills, but it seems to me that 
we're given hints that Remus' parents loved their son, got over the 
fact that their son was now a werewolf, etc., so what happened to 
them?  What happened to Sirius' mom and where's his dad?  I think 
we'll find out about Regulus Black, but nothing's ever said about the 
dad.  I can understand that James' parents might have gotten caught 
up in the war, but why would Lily's parents?  They're muggles, 
right?  Where are they? 

Susan (whose fanfic revolves around the Marauders, so would really 
like to know what happened to all the adults!)