[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Question about Pure Bloods and House of Slytherin

[kemper mentor]

> Kemper earlier:

 > Now to your earlier question... Squibs are not considered pure-

 blood even though they may have pure-blood heritage because they 

 cannot perform magic.

 

 Potioncat challenged:

 Just for fun I'm being contrary here, but is there canon for Squibs 

 not being Pureblood? Yes, I know they are an embarassment to their 

 families and certainly many would not want their child to marry a 

 Squib.

 

 But, I would think an offspring of a Squib and a Witch/Wizard could 

 claim blood status. I would think there would be less stigma to 

 having a Squib for a parent than a Muggle for a parent. The fanfic 

 could be written either way---depending on how Stacy wanted to take 

 it.

 

Stacy found definition on Lexicon:

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 

family.


Kemper now:
I take up the challenge, Potioncat!
Stacy, while the Lexicon may be accurate in with the facts, it is what the WW does with the facts, its culture, that is relevant to your question which I don't think the Lexicon answers.  

Canon from Chamber of Secrets:
Foot high words had been daubed on the wall between two windows....
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED.  ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.

Later, Mr. Filch blames Harry for the writing on the wall because Harry earlier had seen Mr. Filch's Kwickspell letter.  Canon:
"He did it, he did it! ... You saw what he [Harry] wrote on the wall!  He found -- in my office -- he knows I'm a -- I'm a -- He knows I'm a Squib!"

This suggests that Mr. Filch, a Squib who apparently grew up within the culture of the WW, believes himself to be one of the 'enemies of the heir' of Slytherin.  Slytherin who took students with 'ancestry purest'.  Slytherin who is made out to be the big Muggle and Muggleborn hater.  (Which seems evident by Muggleborns being petrified throughout the book... even though it was Little Lord Volderboy who was directing the petrifying.)

If Mr. Filch thought himself to be Pure Blood (or Half-Blood for that matter), he wouldn't care what was written on the wall, only that Mrs. Norris was petrified and hanging underneath the foot high words.

It's not his lineage that Mr. Filch cares about, it's his inability to perform magic which makes him like a Muggle, an enemy of the Heir.

Kemper

 





       
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