Pureblood / Hall Monitor

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 12545

Trina wrote:
> Whoah!  I assumed that since Harry's mum and dad were a witch
> and wizard, Harry *was* a pureblood.  I know Lily was
> Muggle-born, but  still, I didn't think that would qualify him
> as not "pureblood".  When Malfoy uses the term Mudblood,
> he only aims it towards Hermione, a full-blown Muggle-born,
> not Harry.

Apparently the racists call a Muggle-born witch or wizard a Mudblood but
they call the child of a Pureblood and a Mudblood a Halfblood and also
call the child of a Pureblood and a Muggle (e.g. Seamus) a Halfblood. I
keep wondering if they have a whole technical hierarchy of racist
vocabulary, like mulatto, quadroon, octaroon, high-yellow, bien-passer
and other American words I forget.

Amanda wrote:
> I'll bet there is. Remember, Fred and George stole the
> Marauders' Map out of a file drawer in Filch's office. It's
> not certain that the file was on the Marauders themselves,
> but it's strongly implied later

PoA says: "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us
with the usual --" detention disembowelment and we couldn't help
noticing a drawer in one of his filing cabinets marked Confiscated and
Highly Dangerous.

"Don't tell me --" said Harry, starting to grin.

"Well, what would you've done?" said Fred. "George caused a diversion by
dropping another Dungbomb, I whipped the drawer open, and grabbed --
this."
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