Slytherin Lily (Was: Re: another LV - Riddle question)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 99225

Lady Macbeth wrote:
I've been of the opinion that Lily was in Gryffindor HOUSE, but was a
DESCENDANT of Slytherin. <snip>
 
I'm thinking that both of Lily's parents were squibs, and that the
family had possibly been non-magical so long that the magical world
forgot about that branch. <snip>


Carol:
While I agree that there's a Squib or two in Lily's background, I
don't think either of her parents is a Squib because a Squib  (to
quote JKR) is "the nonmagical child of magical parents." Such a person
would not refer to him or herself as a Muggle. (A Squib passing as a
Muggle is another ballgame that I don't want to get into.)

As I understand it, based on this definition, it would take only one
generation for Squibs to become Muggles. That is, if two Squibs had a
nonmagical child, that child would be a Muggle (the nonmagical child
of nonmagical parents). The same would be true if a Squib married a
Muggle: two nonmagical parents producing a nonmagical child would make
the child a Muggle. So, IMO, "a long line of Squibs" is a
contradiction in terms or an impossibility. But I agree that the
magical world would quickly lose sight of such people. There'd be no
record in the MoM of their marriage or their children, and any magical
Evanses would be blissfully unaware of their Muggle relatives until
one of them produced a Muggle-born Witch or Wizard like Lily.

Another point: Squibs are very rare, and it would be difficult to
sustain a "line" of them even if it were possible to do so (and I
don't think it is). I would hope, if I were a young Squib, to marry a
Wizard and have children with magical powers, but I would probably end
up passing as a Muggle and having Muggle children.


Carol, who still hopes that Mark Evans is a distant cousin of Harry's,
another Evans Muggle-born like Lily, and the grandchild or
great-grandchild of an Evans Squib