Lily and Petunia weren't sisters Was: Petunia's Eyes

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 169862

I like this theory. It ties into what happens to Squibs?

Some, like Filch, find employment in the Wizardling World; others, like Mrs.
Figg live in the Muggle world but still maintain ties to it.

We don't know anything about the (late?) Mr. Figg.  Was he a Muggle?  A
fellow-Squib?  A wizard?  We don't know.

I'm going to take a leap of speculation.  Squibs who marry Muggles pretty much
withdraw from the Wizardling World, but maintain some discreet ties to it as
they know that their children have a better-than-average chance of being
Mageborn.  Even if their children are all Muggles, sometimes they may hand down
knowledge to the next generation, although after a while the tradition may be
lost.  Remember Slughorn's reference to a famous potioneer with the surname
Granger?  Wanna bet that he had a Squib son who became Hermione's
great-great-grandfather?  (Remember, Hermione's father is a dentist.  A
potioneer is the closest thing that the Wizardling World has to a scientist.
Perhaps great-great-grandpa Granger had taken that scientific bent into the
Muggle World and passed it on, along with a sleeping potential for magic.) 

What if a similar dynamic was in the Evans family?  Petunia said that her
parents were proud of having a Witch in the family.  Most Muggle parents, I
think, would be more scared than proud, I should think, at least at first.  If
Harry's Evans grandparents were Squibs, or one of them, or even (perhaps) if one
set of Evans great-grandparents had been and some tradition that magic was real
had been handed down.  I think that this would explain 'she's not a Squib, but.
. .'    'She's not a squib but HER mother/father was.'

Bruce Alan Wilson

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