Uncle Tom?

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Marion Ros <mros at ...> wrote:
> Oooohhhh... good point!!
> JKR must be laughing her head off. Every time somebody asked her if
there might be a possibility that one of Lily's parents were perhaps
Squibs or something, just so they could link Lily to the Wizarding
World, JKR has answered that the Evanses and the Dursleys are
totally, one-hundred percent Muggle. But nobody (until you just now)
has ever thought to connect Lily, Petunia and Harry to the WW by
Voldemort's Muggle father.
>
> <snip> Besides, it would be more logical that Voldemort inherited
his Parseltongue ability from his mother's side (descendants of
Slytherin himself after all, who was known for his Parseltongue) than
from his Muggle father. <snip>
>
> Also, I must admit that the whole 'you are a great wizard Harry
because it's all in your Blood' idea gets a bit on my nerve since
we've had sanctimonuously hammered home by the whole of fandom that
the 'blood-purists' in the WW and their ideas that 'breeding outside
of the talented genepool weakens the talent' is Wrong, Racist and
whoever utters it would be just short of being the lovechild of Adolf
Hitler and Satan. To suddenly suggest that Harry and Lily owe their
powers to some blood-connection to Voldemort (it's all down to
breeding, it's In His Blood, etc, etc) would suggest that the
bloodpurists might have a point after all <grin> <<


Firefly:
Hmmm, it's true that the parsletongue ability, if it were to be
considered "handed down", would have to come from Tom's mother's
side.

Ok then, it may be simply their looks that Harry inherited from the
muggle side. However, as Dumbledore mentions, Tom did pass on certain
of his powers while trying to curse him, unintentionally of course,
but the reason something like that could happen was because of the
blood link between them from the muggle side of their family.
Dumbledore alludes to something like that at least 2 times in my
estimation. In COS, which JKR has said is a book that is very
important to understanding the whole, he mentions that Lord Voldemort
chose Harry over Neville, in part because, like himself, Harry was a
half-blood. Also, JKR has made a great deal of the fact that the
blood link on Harry's muggle side is powerful enough magic in and of
itself to protect Harry (by calling Privot drive "home" as a child).
Also, the "accidental" yet permanent passing of powers from one
wizard to another, especially one you hate and are trying to kill is
surely very rare if not unique to Harry and Tom's case. The reason
for it must be pivotal.

I don't agree with your picture of the blood line issue, however. I
think the only ethical point we are to take from the books is "Do not
presume to know a person's abilities or worth based strictly on their
bloodline. Judge each person as an individual." However, it seems to
me that JKR still places huge value in true blood relationships.
Thanks for answering!