ok so I searched and found this topic nowhere, but, yet again, if there's already a post like this, please point me in the right direction


so I was bored and decided to read some old FAQ questions on Jo's site when I came across the "About the Books" section. the question was:
What education do the children of wizards have before going to Hogwarts?
Jo explains that they're usually homeschool for fear that they might accidentally use magic. she then says "Even Muggle-borns like Harry attract a certain amount of unwelcome attention..."
now am I misunderstanding or did she just say that Harry was muggle-born? mistype by Jo or what, I dunno, I mean Harry can't be muggle-born can he? I just don't see a way. but Jo like to throw surprises at us. still.. I just don't know. it just hit me like a stunning spell "muggle-borns like Harry"

what does everyone else think? to read it yourself go to www.jkrowling.com click the FAQ and look under About the Books.

I don't know whether he can be. Lupin says to Harry in HBP 'Your father was pure blood, Harry' as Harry is enqiring about the Half Blood Prince, so unless know one knows and James has kept it a secret, but then Sirius or Lupin would have known when they met James parents, Sirius practically lived there in the hols. Unless James was adopted, but I can't see it myself. I think it was just a typo. Well spotted though!

I have a feeling Jo might have ment children who had no idea, like muggle-borns (Harry thought he was), that they were magic or that magic even existed. If it wasn't this it would have been a typo.

I think it was mistype...or typo...

Maybe it was meant to be: "Even Muggle-borns, like Harry, attract a certain amount of unwelcome attention..." (note the commas).

However, she had it on her site like this, so I think it was just a simple mistake. Unless something really wierd happened that we haven't been told about.

Sooooo intresting!!!!!
Well either JK has mistyped or we are in for a very BIG surprise.Something like Harry is not actually Liliy and James's son.
Maybe he comes from the same orphanage as Tom Riddles' ????

Wow!That's an intresting theory isn't it???

Chels.

I think her calling him "muggle-born" was probably just a reference to the fact that he was raised by muggles; so therefore any magical activity growing up would be most unusual and typically frightening.

We also know Harry isn't pureblood because of his mother so...that probably added to the comment.

[quote]VividGreen
I think her calling him "muggle-born" was probably just a reference to the fact that he was raised by muggles; so therefore any magical activity growing up would be most unusual and typically frightening[quote]
Yeah. I believe that is just a reference to the fact that he was raised by muggles, or it is just plainly, a typo.

It was simply, in my opinion, her saying "Someone who had a muggle upbringing, like Harry" rather than saying "Someone born to muggle parentage".

Jo is only human, she could have meant people who had no idea they were magical as Caitlin in Australia said. But she is only human and she could have made a mistake. We know for a fact that both his parents were wizards.

I agree with the general consensus. She meant muggle raised, not muggle born. Dean Thomas is another that would be characterized in this situation (see JK's website). For the most part, halfbloods are not raised by muggles.

Yes, I agree.
Also, I do not think it is like JKR to make such a big mistake as revealing Harry to be muggle-born. She keeps her secrets closely gaurded and is careful about how much she lets out.

Additionally, it is almost certain that Lily and James are Harry's parents because Dumbledore would never lie to Harry about such a thing, in my opinion. Also, we know they were both wizards as their legacies are left at Hogwarts.

Just for reference, in Chamber of Secrets in the chapter about Mudbloods and Murmurs, when Hermione is called a mud blood and, later, they all go to Hagrids, Harry says after Ron's explanation that it wouldn't hurt him because he is a half-blood. Maybe that was also a mistake in that Harry may have been guessing or coming to his own conclusion

Well, he's not entirely pure-blood, is he? I mean, his mother was muggle-born, so that'll make him what? 75% pure blood? Something like that.. I'm sure that's what he meant. And I also think JK "calling Harry half-blood" was simply a typo, nothing more. It was probably supposed to be "Even Muggle-borns, like Harry, attract a certain amount of unwelcome attention...", meaning that's something they have in common.
As for the idea of Harry being brought up at the same orphanage as Tom Riddle, it's a funny theory, but as far as we know, that's not true, as he was brought up by the Dursleys'.

I think what Jo meant is that Harry was brought up by muggles. Harry is half-blood. His father was pure blood and his mother was muggle-born. Or perhaps she meant to say muggle-borns like Hermione.

Well I know for a fact that Lily is muggle born and James is pure blood....with this said he is half blood. Now as we know we know nothing of Harry before he was placed on the Dursley's doorstep. So what she might be saying is that he MAY have been born in a muggle hospital, but as we all also know JKR does make typo's as everyone does. So I think it maybe just a typo or she may have just said that to get everyone asking questions.

Probably it was an accident becasue harry is half-blood.