6th book.

[justcarol67]

-Kathryn Wolber wrote:
> Just a small point that I think should be made as I've
> had some confusion with people I've discussed the
> title with. There are differences between half blood,
> full blood, pure blood, muggle born.
> 
> The two obvious ones:
> Half Blood: Means that only one parent is magical. 
> Muggle Born: Neither parent is magical.
> 
> Slightly confusing ones:
> Pure Blood: Presumably means that all direct ancestors
> (in their blood line)are magical.
> Full Blood: Both parents were magical.
> 
> So to clarify, all Pure Bloods would be Full Blooded
> Wizards/Witches but not vice versa. Like Neville and
> Draco are both Pure Bloods and Full Blooded because
> their parents, as well as all of their ancestors, are
> magical. Harry, on the other hand, is a Full Blood but
> not a Pure Blood because his maternal grandparents
> were muggles.  
> 
> So the point of this is, it's not important whether or
> not Neville is Pure Blood, just that he is Full Blood.
> 
> ~Kathryn, who hopes that makes sense


Carol, dropping in from the main group to comment on this post:

I think it's important to use JKR's own terminology here. She doesn't
use the term "full blood," convenient though it would be as a term for
someone like Harry with recent Muggle ancestors other than their
parents. Harry, somewhat confusingly, is classified as a Half Blood
(see the long conversation with Dumbledore in Book 5) because his
mother is a Muggleborn and therefore contributes Muggle blood, not
wizard blood, even though she's a witch. As someone on the main board
pointed out when I first joined, Harry has two Muggle grandparents and
two witch/wizard grandparents, which makes him as much a Half Blood as
Seamus Finnegan or Tom Riddle. 

As to who the Half Blood Prince might be, JKR says on her site that
he's neither Harry nor Voldemort, but she also indicates that she
considered the HBP title for "Chamber of Secrets." That statement
suggests that the prince is someone we already know well from CoS. I'm
guessing that it's Dumbledore (who, as we know, takes an interest in
Muggles, reading their newspapers and eating their sweets, which might
indicate that he had one Muggle or Muggleborn parent). But Dumbledore
was of course introduced in SS/PS and the HBP could well be someone
who was introduced in CoS, for example, Gilderoy Lockhart. Note that
"Roy" ("roi") means "king," so it's remotely possible that he'll
recover from his memory charm to play an important role in Book 6. I
sincerely hope not--that would be a royal pain. I can't think of any
student introduced in CoS who played an important role other than
Colin Creevey, who of course is a Muggleborn and can't be the one.

Carol, who's back to her first idea (Dumbledore) unless someone
provides convincing evidence for some other candidate