Question about Pure Bloods and House of Slytherin

[seanmulligan2000]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "stacygalore" 
<stacygalore at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > > <kempermentor@> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm also guessing that Harry's kids are considered Full Blood 
if 
> > > not Pure Blood as all sets of grandparents are magical.  
However, 
> > I don't recall Full Blood being used as a description in the 
books 
> > so my assumption is canon weak.
> > 
> > Snape's witch said:
> > > There's no canon designation of full-blood; only pure-blood, 
half-
> > > blood, and muggle-born (and Muggle, of course).  Some people 
say 
> > that Harry's and Ginny's kids would be pure-blood but I don't see 
> > how because Harry remains a half-blood.  Some fans confuse 
magical 
> > status with blood status, which isn't the same at all.  If two 
> > Muggle-borns marry, their children aren't going to be pure-blood 
> > even though both parents are magical.
> > 
> > Tonks_op
> > I agree with Snape's Witch. Because Lily was a Muggle born her 
> > gradchildren would not be pure blood. I am not sure how long the 
> > blood line would have to go before they would forget about Lily. 
I 
> > am not sure that they ever forget about any Muggle born in a 
family 
> > line. I remember some reference to that in the books.. but forget 
> > where. It might have been Sirius when he was explaining the 
family 
> > tree to Harry. He said something to the effect that there had to 
be 
> > a few Muggles here and there or they would have all died out. But 
no 
> > one who values 'pure blood' would ever mention "those people" in 
> > their family line, I am sure.
> 
> Stacy here again:
> OK so I did some digging in the HP Lexicon, which says little re: 
squib blood status.  The 
> lexicon defines Pure Blood as follows:
> 
> pure-blood
> A witch or wizard of 'pure' wizarding ancestry, without any Muggle 
ancestors whatsoever 
> as far as can be determined.
> 
> The Lexicon then goes on to describe a sqib as follows:
> 
> A Squib is not a Muggle. Born to a wizarding family, a Squib has 
such a low level of 
> magical power that he or she is essentially unable to do any magic 
at all. However, while a 
> Squib cannot cast spells, he or she can apparently see magical 
beings such as poltergeists, 
> though not dementors (JKR).
> 
> So this leads me to believe that if there is a squib in the 
lineage, it does not change the 
> blood status of the descendants, so long as there are no muggles or 
muggle-borns in the 
> .  
> 
> Thanks all for your thoughts on this issue.  The fic I'm going to 
write will tackle racism and 
> prejudice in the wizarding world, and how a death eater is "made".  
I will post on the 
> HPFGU announcement board when the first chapters will be online, 
though I don't forsee it 
> happening any time soon.  I have a lot of research to do.
>

That sounds like a great fic.