Lily's magical background

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No: HPFGUIDX 112641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> Karen (earlier) wrote:
> > > > James Potter is a full-blood.  For Harry to be a half-blood,
> Lily is a Muggle.  Therefore, Lily's grandparents are Muggles. 
<snip>
>  
> I (Carol) responded:
> > > Not a Muggle (a person with no magical powers) but a Muggleborn,
> the witch or wizard child of two Muggles. She still has Muggle blood
> in the sense that her parents are Muggles, which explains how Harry
> can be a Half-blood despite having a witch and a wizard as parents.
> > > 
> > > I think the part about "Lily's grandparents" is another slip of
> the keyboard; JKR seems to have meant "Lily's parents"/"Harry's
> grandparents." At any rate, there's no doubt from the books that 
> Lily is a Muggleborn. <snip> Her grandparents were presumably 
Muggles
> as well, but it's her parents who are important in determining 
Harry's
> status as a half-blood, no different in Riddle!Voldemort's view from
> himself as far as bloodlines go.
>  
> Karen then wrote:
> > Thanks for the correction on the Muggle vs Muggle-born. I don't 
> > think JKR made a slip with "grandparents". I think she wants us 
to 
> > know that all 8 of Lily's and Petunia's great-grandparents are 
> > Muggles. <snip>
>  
> Carol again:
> At any rate, all four of Lily's (and Petunia's) grandparents were
> Muggles, and therefore both parents were Muggles, which is all 
that's
> needed to make Lily a Muggleborn and Petunia a Muggle. It would have
> saved a lot of confusion if JKR had made the Muggle grandparent
> connection clearer on her website!
> 

Karen adds:
JKR provide very clear distinct statements /clues on her website and 
not allowing the reader an ambiguous interpretation.  Not the JKR I 
love reading!  That's what makes her books so fun to re-read and this 
discussion group to be so active.

(Elves - forgive me if this is off topic but I could not resist the 
opportunity to praise JKR.)
- Karen