Classifications?

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Classifications?
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6207] Classifications?
Date: 8/8/00 3:00 am  (ET)

Magical people are called 'wizards' (if male) and 'witches' (if female). I
wish JKR had made it 'wizards' and 'wizardesses' (or even 'mages' which is
unisex), which would avoid a lot of anti-HP whining about 'witchcraft'
as well as any confusion with Wicca, but she didn't. Apparently the
adjective is 'wizarding', so I ought to refer to them as 'wizarding folk',
but I feel much more comfortable calling them 'wizard folk'.

Hagrid said to Harry: Don't you know anything about our world? The
wizarding world?

Draco said to Harry: I think they should limit it to students from old
wizarding families, don't you?

Magical people from two Muggle parents are called Muggle-born, andn the
bad guys call them Mudbloods. Magical people with one Muggle parent
are called half-and-half and the bad guys call both them and magical
people with one Muggle-born witch/wizard parent and one 'pureblood'
witch/wizard parent a Halfblood. They seem to call Harry a Halfblood
because his mother was a Mudblood, but if he were to marry Ginny (I am
not trying to side with *any* shippers!) I gather that their children
would count as Purebloods.