A bit of Lily research...

[Miikka R.]

No: HPFGUIDX 125196


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" <jmgarciaiii at y...>
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miikka R." <ryokas at h...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" 
> <jmgarciaiii at y...>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm formulating a hypothesis and, in order to determine whether 
> I am 
> > > deranged, I need to know the following:
> > > 
> > > Where (if anywhere) in the canon is it SPECIFICALLY stated (not 
> > > alluded to, not obliquely mentioned, but, rather, stated 
> outright) 
> > > Lily was Muggle-born?
> > > 
> > > -Joe in SoFla
> > 
> > Harry mentions that his mother was Muggle-born when talking to Tom
> > Riddle, and during Petunia's freakout in the first book she quotes 
> her
> > parents as being proud of having a witch in the family.
> 
> Could you (or anyone) get me the exact quote? (OR at least point me 
> to book & chapter?)
> 
> TIA!
> 
> -Joe in SoFla

I wasn't going to get that essay started anyway, so my Ebook
collection says: 

"No one knows why you lost your powers when you attacked me," said
Harry abruptly. "I don't know myself But I know why you couldn't kill
me. Because my mother died to save me. My common Muggle-born mother,"
he added, shaking with suppressed rage. "She stopped you killing me.
And I've seen the real you, I saw you last year. You're a wreck.
You're barely alive. That's where all your power got you. You're in
hiding. You're ugly, you're foul -" - CoS, chapter seventeen.

"You knew?" said Harry. "You knew I'm a -- a wizard?"
"Knew!" shrieked Aunt Petunia suddenly. "Knew! Of course we knew! How
could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a
letter just like that and disappeared off to that-that school-and came
home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning
teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was --
a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and
Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!" - PS,
chapter four.