[HPforGrownups] Re: Purity of Bloodline

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 2431


----- Original Message -----
From: Ebony Elizabeth <ebonyink at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 7:17 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Purity of Bloodline


> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...>
> wrote:
> "As far as your last question goes, Alix (about how far back Muggle
> blood is traced) -- bigotry varies according to region and
> upbringing.  There are some areas of the USA where you are considered
> to be of the Negro race if even ONE of your great-grandparents had
> Negro blood.  This is not considered a good thing in those areas of
> the country.  Bigotry, pure and simple and wrong.  On the other hand,
> many people BRAG about being 1/16th American Indian ancestry.  Why it
> is considered intriguing to have a tiny bit of Native American blood
> and NOT intriguing to have a tiny bit of African-American blood is
> one of the great puzzles of the untutored brain."

Sorry to have snipped Ebony's interesting answer to Sister Mary, but I just
wanted to say that my original mail and questions weren't born of bigotry or
intended to be read as such and I'd like to apologise to anyone who thought
so, 'specially Ebony and Sister Mary.  It was a genuine enquiry, as I, as
someone else mentioned, would've thought that, knowing how wizarding folk
are categorised, having a wizard and a witch would have made you a
pureblood, and was puzzled, knowing Harry's parentage, to hear him described
as a halfblood.  And I'd like to reiterate what I said in one of my other
mails on this subject, that it is 'who' you are as a person that is
important, not 'what' society superficially pigeonholes you as being.  As
true for the wizarding world as it is for ours...

Alix