[HPforGrownups] Purity of Bloodline ( Was Voldemore the family man)

[Firebolt]

No: HPFGUIDX 2350

> If your parents are, at the most basic level, a witch and a wizard,
> regardless of birth, does that make you a pure-blood?  Harry's parents are
a
> muggle-born witch, and, AFAWK, a pure-blood wizard, whereas Seamus is
> definitely half and half because he says so, despite being a wizard, as
his
> father is a muggle; does this make Harry a pure blood, being descended
from
> a witch and wizard, or something like, say, a 3 quarter blood?  Not that
> purity of blood matters in itself, but if Harry was not considered to have
> sufficient wizarding ancestors to make himself a pure-blood, surely that
> would put Voldemort on shaky ground with his own policies of purity of the
> gene pool?

Hitler was a short, ugly, brown-haired, brown-eyed man who claimed that
tall, handsome, blue-eyed blond people were the superior human race. But he
had charisma. Thus, we had World War II.

It's perfectly possible that Voldemort has enough of a hold upon his
followers that they wouldn't care...

On the other hand, while I can't really say how loyal Hitler's closest
advisors and the like were (someone more learned than me lend a helping
hand, please? ^_^), Voldemort's minions obviously aren't as loyal as he
wants them to be, so it's *also* possible that Voldemort never mentioned his
own purity of blood. So he could be hiding the truth about Harry's lineage
for his own protection. This would be assuming that Dumbledore is either
wrong or pulling an Obi-Wan on Harry...('Well, Voldemort's son [if one of
Harry's parents is a Riddle descendant, it would be James, IMHO], your
father, didn't uphold the Dark Lord's ideals, he rejected them and his true
parentage...so from a certain point of view, Harry, Voldemort *is* the last
living descendant of Slytherin.')

~Firebolt