Lily's Parents

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 170078

 
> > colebiancardi wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Abha wrote:
> This makes me infer the exact opposite. If a purely muggle family
gets the news that they have a witch in the family, they might be
confused or even scared. 
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colebiancardi:

I don't know if JKR ever wrote or told us how Hermoine's parents felt
about the news, but since Hermoine didn't make a deal out of it, I
think they took it well.   If I lived in the HP world as a muggle and
had a child that was a wizard, I would be thrilled, not scared or
confused.  Perhaps it all depends if you like to read fantasy novels
or not :)

I take the family ties at face level from the writings of JKR.  There
has been no indication that the Evans weren't anything but muggles,
not squibs.  Slughorn remarks on Lily's muggle-born status and so does
Hagrid as well.  I think that if Lily's parents (one or the other)
were squibs, neither Slughorn or Hagrid would have stated that.

colebiancardi