Colin Creevy

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112910

Hannah said:
"I think there is a lot more to Colin than meets the eye.  He is 
mentioned in all of the books from CoS onwards, even when he doesn't 
have much part to play in the story.  It's like JKR wants us to 
remember that he's there.  She even gives him a little brother (a 
sort of Colin#2) in GoF.  Whatever narrative functions Colin's 
character might perform, it doesn't seem necessary to have two 
similar characters just to tell Harry he's great and stare at things 
open-mouthed with wonder."

DuffyPoo:
I think one of the reasons for Colin's existence is to prove once again, "that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!" (DD - GoF - The Parting of the Ways)  We've seen two instances - Lily and Hermione - where Muggle-born witches are quite powerful in their magic despite being Muggle-born.  We haven't seen that in a wizard, yet.  While some are saying that Wormtail may turn out to be the Muggle-born DE that JKR mentioned at the Edinburgh book reading, Wormtail certainly is no example, as far as we've seen, of a powerful wizard.  Malfoy says "He [Dumbledore] loves Muggle-borns.  A decent headmaster would never've let slime like that Creevey in" and while this was a slight at DD it was also a slight at Muggle-borns.  It would be nice to see Draco get his comeuppance in Colin. ;)

Hannah said:
"I also believe that Colin Creevy may be a half-blood.  Although he 
is attacked by the Slytherin monster, I think one muggle parent 
would be enough to justify a basilisk attack in the eyes of the pure-
blood fanatics.
Colin seems to come from a close family, yet he only mentions his 
Dad, not his Mum.  He says he is sending pictures to his Dad, and 
even volunteers that he is muggle milkman.  Why isn't he including 
his Mum in this? Even the first time I read this, I took it that his 
Mum was dead/ had left them.  And missing parents in Potterverse 
always flag up warning signs.  She could well have been a witch."

DuffyPoo:
You may be right.  I'm thinking of Dean Thomas' backstory here.  Perhaps the Mom left the family or died.  Colin and Dennis would be raised as Muggles by their Muggle-milkman-dad.  They certainly were raised as Muggles.  Colin had a Muggle camera and had to be told of the potion to develop pictures to make them move.  He knew nothing of Quidditch.  

However, Draco Malfoy believes Colin is Muggle-born (see quote above).  The pure-blood-prejudiced kids seem to 'know' everyone else's blood status.  In CoS, Riddle says "She [Ginny] set the Serpent of Slytherin on four Mudbloods, and the Squib's cat."  Ginny was the one setting the basilisk on people, she knew who were Muggle-borns and who were not (not that I'm saying she is pure-blood-prejudiced, but she knew what she was supposed to be doing: setting the basilisk on Muggle-borns).  I think this shows that Penelope Clearwater and Colin Creevey are Muggle-borns as well as Hermione and Justin.  (On a side note, since Sir Nicholas was also kind of petrified by the basilisk, does that prove that he was Muggle-born as well?)

Hannah:
"My supporting evidence for this is the existence of wizard!Dennis.  
A wizard child born to two muggle parents is fairly unusual.  Lily's 
sister (Petunia) is not magical, neither is Hermione's younger 
sister (from JKR website/ chats), so it doesn't seem that siblings 
of muggle born wizards are usually magical too.  But here are the 
Creevys with two wizard sons.  This would be (be my reasoning), 
extremely unusual for two muggles, but normal for a witch and a 
muggle."

DuffyPoo:
I, personally, don't think this is enough evidence.  Not enough to prove anything.  We only have the Creeveys and the Evans'.  For our purposes Hermione doesn't have a sister.  "JK Rowling replies -> I always planned that Hermione would have a younger sister but she's never made an appearance and somehow it feels like it might be too late now." She doesn't give any indication, that I can see, whether the sister would magical or not.   Justin and Penelope, our other two known Muggle-borns don't appear to have siblings either.  Neither does Dean Thomas who we believe, from the book, is a Muggle-born (apart from what JKR's site says.)  So, the Creeveys have two Muggle-born wizards and the Evans' have one Muggle-born witch and one Muggle.  Those are the only real cases we know of.

Hannah:
"So... could Colin Creevy be the half blood prince?"

DuffyPoo:
At this point, anything is possible and your guess is as good as anyone else's.  ;-) 

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