Seamus the Half-Blood (was "Dam' Good Auror")

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., UcfRentLuvr at c... wrote:
> Barb said:
> but Neville isn't as competent as Ron, and Seamus (the only other 
non-Muggle-born in Harry's house and year) just doesn't seem to have 
Ron's je-ne-sais-quois.   
 
> I don't have my books with me, but I thought Seamus said his mom 
was a witch. Didn't he say something to the affect that his dad din't 
know until after they were married?....or am I mixing up things 
again? :)

That's why I said "non-Muggle-born" instead of pure-blood.  Seamus is 
half-blood, and probably grew up knowing he was a wizard, even though 
his dad is a Muggle.  Since we don't know whether the Finnigan family 
has been firmly entrenched in the wizarding world with his dad as 
something of an outsider, or whether they live mostly in Muggle 
society with his mom hiding her magic from the neighbors a la 
Bewitched (second Bewitched mention today, isn't that?) I don't think 
we can consider Seamus to be a candidate for conduit-to-the-wizarding 
world in the same way that Ron is.  He did attend the Quidditch World 
Cup and brought Dean Thomas along, but that doesn't really tell us 
much.

--Barb