some revalations while re-reading goblet of fire

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22080

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., big_bad_ad at h... wrote:
> I was under the impresion that a mudblood was half muggle.
> 
> harry is not a mudblood, because although his mother was muggle 
born, 
> she was, in fact, a witch.

Right.  The definitions are:

Pure-blood: Born of a witch-wizard couple (regardless of how "pure" 
their blood is)

Half-Muggle: Born of one magical parent and one Muggle parent; in 
canon these always seem to be magical children, too (we haven't heard 
about a student who is half-Muggle who has a non-magical sibling)

Muggle-born (bad language: Mudblood): Born of two Muggles.  This 
magical ability seems to pop up regularly like a recessive gene or 
something.

Squib: Non-magical or nearly non-magical person born of magical 
parents.  (Perhaps more likely if only one parent is magical; see 
Half-Muggle, above.  Perhaps Filch has a Muggle parent?)

Anyway, Squibs in the magical world seem to be roughly the flip side 
of Muggle-borns in the Muggle world.  I hope we learn more about 
Squibs, other than what sort of shady owl-post lessons are available 
for them to (supposedly) improve their magical performance.

--Barb