[HPforGrownups] Re:heredity/geneaology

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 11660



sashibuya at hotmail.com wrote:

> not. (It seems rather incredible that there are that many purebloods
> left anyway, given the amount of muggles around Hogwarts)
>

Well, Ernie MacMillan (in CoS) says that he's pureblood & can trace his
family back to 9 generations of witches & wizards - that's only a few
hundred years - certainly not back to slytherin's time -even
"purebloods" now  may have muggles in their backgrounds back in the
1200's or so - AND ernie NEVER says that it's 9 generations of
wizard/witch born witches & wizards -just that no non-magical people
count among his directy ancestors for 9 generations...


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