The significance of Harry having Lily's eyes

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Ersatz Harry provided this link and quotes:
(http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml), > > 
> > *****
 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. 

 
> hg:
> Thanks for posting one of her quotes, but I've researched quite 
> carefully, including the interviews, and I've taken them into 
> account.  Incidentally, that particular quote is in reference to 
> Harry's grandparents, not Lily's, and is about him being alone.  
> Slughorn being Harry's grandfather doesn't conflict with any of 
> that.  As far as I've seen, there's nothing that rules it out as a 
> possibility.

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Sorry, no I beleive JKR is talking about both sides of Harry's family 
and the sentence I kept from the quote certainly means the Evans side. 
Add to that the blood protection from Lily. If Slughorn was Lily's 
grandfather, Harry could have stayed with him. Also, if memory serves 
me, Slughorn is still somewhat amazed that Lily as a Muggle-born witch 
had such powers.

We actually have several sets of characters who share common 
descriptions that have, over the years, caused people to wonder at a 
family connection. (Hair color alone would possibly have DD, Weasleys 
and Lily related OR Snape and McGonagall related) But I'm convinced 
there is enough canon and interviews to nix this one.

Nevermind. Just about all of us have come up with some ideas that 
others have shot down wiht canon.

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