Purity of Bloodline ( Was Voldemore the family man)

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 2354


> 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.

Hagrid also confirmed that Harry is NOT considered a pure-blood when 
he said that he hoped Harry would win the Triwizard T. so that it 
would prove that you didn't have to be a pure-blood to be the best 
(or something like that...I don't have the books here with me). I was 
a bit surprised at that since I figured that if you have wizards for 
parents, you were NOT considered half-blood or whatever. But that 
shows what I know.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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