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

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 2353


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> > If your parents are, at the most basic level, a witch and a wizard,
> > regardless of birth, does that make you a pure-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?

> 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.')

LOL - I could almost hear Sir Alec as I was reading.  Actually, the point I
was making wasn't one about Harry and Voldemort's lineage being linked (I
*knew* it wasn't a well worded message...), but a general question about how
far back muggle blood has to be in your family tree to be considered
pure-blood; Ernie Macmillan says that he can trace his wizarding ancestry
back 9 generations, suggesting that prior to that there was some muggle
ancestry, maybe?  The bit that really triggered my curiosity was in CoS
where Riddle is comparing the similarities between himself and Harry and he
calls them both halfbloods.  With a witch mother and a muggle father,
Voldemort is unequivocably a half-blood, but Harry has a witch, albeit
muggle born, mother, and a wizard father.  Not that it matters a jot, of
course, it's who you are, not what you are, that's important; just idle
curiosity.  I take your point about Hitler though...just one of the many
WWII parallels that run through these books...

Alix