Lily's Parents

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 170076

> karen wrote:
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> Now the significance of this statement is that Harry was considered 
> for Slytherin in book one while wearing the sorting hat.  If he was 
> considered then he must be full blooded.  We already knew he was 
> considered at school to be from a all-magic family but what is an all-
> magic family?  If Harry's grandparents were muggles, as we suspect 
> they are, then wouldn't he not be from an all-magic family?  To be 
> considered for Slytherin he must have been full blooded which means 
> that either Petunia's parents are not Lily's parents (Lily parents 
> would be a witch and a wizard) or Petunia and Lily's parents are not 
> muggles.  What do you think about those possibilities?
>

colebiancardi:

You might be forgetting that Snape is half-blood (one parent a muggle,
the other a witch) and yet he was in Slytherin.  Tom Riddle was also a
half-blood (father a muggle, mother a witch). Harry's grandparents on
his mother's side were muggles, but James, his father, was a
pure-blood, if I remember correctly.

So, paternal side - full-blown wizarding family.  Maternal side - as
far as we know from JKR's writings, just the ordinary muggle family. 
After all, Petunia stated that their family was proud to have a witch
in the family - so it seems to me that was real NEWS to the Evans' family.

colebiancardi