The significance of Harry having Lily's eyes

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 138787

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo"
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:

> hg:
> I agree and I'll add (and get laughed off the board for it) that I 
> think Slughorn is Lily's grandfather.  His eyes are green.  

Afraid not, at least according to Part 3 of the JKR interview at
Muggle.net (http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml), which has
the following exchange:

*****
MA: What about Harry's family — his grandparents — were they killed?

JKR: No. This takes us into more mundane territory. As a writer, it
was more interesting, plot-wise, if Harry was completely alone. So I
rather ruthlessly disposed of his entire family apart from Aunt
Petunia. I mean, James and Lily are massively important to the plot,
of course, but the grandparents? No. And, because I do like my
backstory: Petunia and Lily's parents, normal Muggle death. James's
parents were elderly, were getting on a little when he was born, which
explains the only child, very pampered,
had-him-late-in-life-so-he's-an-extra-treasure, as often happens, I
think. They were old in wizarding terms, and they died. They succumbed
to a wizarding illness. That's as far as it goes. There's nothing
serious or sinister about those deaths. I just needed them out of the
way so I killed them.
*****

I don't think JKR could have been much clearer about this.

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