AboutQueenAries Expertise I can answer any question at all on the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. I can only answer questions on the books, not the author, movie or any financial proceedings/takeovers instigated by Warner Bros.
Experience I used to work in a library, now work in a book shop, and have read the Harry Potter series cover to cover countless times.
Question In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", Aunt Petunia Dursley tells Harry that she remembers her sister (Harry's Mother Lily Potter) getting her letter from Hogwart's. But in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Voldemort calls Lily Potter "a filthy Muggle Mother". I'm confused, because aren't "muggles" described as a "non-magic folk" by Hagrid in the first movie? If Harry's mother was a "muggle", why would she have gotten a letter from Hogwart's? I thought only Witches and Wizards received letters from Hogwart's. Please help me understand. Thank you......Steve
Answer Steve,
Voldemort is a type of wizard who groups people into nasty little pigeonholes. In his fanatical eyes, 'Muggle' and 'Mudblood' are interchangeable, especially with the sting of himself being a Mudblood. Lily Potter came from a Muggle family with no obvious wizarding connections; to the purist wizards, she is one step below a Squib, who is born into a magical family but has no magical ability whatsoever. It's similiar to the categorisation process used by Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s; Germans had to prove that not only were /they/ not Jewish, but that there was no Jewish connection past their great-grandmothers before they could be accepted as a 'true German'. As Lily Potter and various other Hogwarts students prove, magic can come out of nowhere regardless of blood; Hogwarts accepts all children that show signs of magical ability, and therefore when Lily hit eleven, her letter came to her.
