Blood Confusion: was- Who ...Potters?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 45919

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "James P. Robinson III" <jprobins at i...> wrote:
> As the clock struck 11:17 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, 
Audra1976 at a... took pen in hand and wrote:
> >Voldemort persecuted muggles and"mudbloods" in favor of pure-blooded
> > wizards. Lily was a muggle-born witch, so Lily and James were a 
> "mixed marriage" and their son was a "mudblood."  That's reason 
> enough for Voldemort to target them as examples.

Jim replied:
> 
> I thought that it was made pretty clear in COS that Harry was not 
> considered a "mudblood".  ...snip...  My impression in that past was
> that she was muggle-born, ...snip...
> 
> Jim

bboy_mn adds:
Boy this whole muggle/mudblood/pure-blood thing is confusing.

I'm not saying I'm right, but here is my take on the subject.

Pure-Blood = in the truest sense is someone who can trace their
magical heritage back through infinity with only magic blood
intermarriages.

Muggle = non-magical person

Muggle-Born = a witch or a wizard who's parents are BOTH muggles.

Magic-born person = the wizard son or witch daughter of a witch and a
wizard.

Magic person = anyone who is magical regardless of birth.

Mixed blood = the wizard son or witch daughter of a witch or a wizard,
and a non-magical muggle parent. As in Tom Riddle. Harry has purer
blood than Tom Riddle does because both of Harry's parents were magic.

Mudblood = is several things. 
In the purest form, all muggles are mudbloods in that they do not have
any magical blood at all. 

By another definition, the wizard son or witch daughter of muggle
parents are mudbloods by virtue of the fact that they have no magical
heritage. They are magical but have no ancestral magical blood. That
would be Hermione.

Next, if your parents are a witch/wizard and a muggle, then your blood
isn't pure, therefore you are a mudblood. Again, Tom Riddle. Very
interesting that by any definition Tom Riddle is more of a mudblood
than Harry.



Part of what confuses this, is that the concept of 'mudblood' is in
the eye (or mouth) of the insulter. If you are not of totally
pure-blood as the Weasleys and Malfoys are, then any impurity makes
you a mudblood in some peoples eyes. If you have one muggle in a 1,000
years of magical heritage then to some people your blood isn't pure
and therefore, you are a mudblood.

Harry could be mudblood in the eyes of some because his mother was
muggle born, BUT he could just as easily be pureblood in the eyes of
others by vitue of the fact that his parents are both magical; a witch
and a wizard. 

Point- the is no absolute definition of a 'mudblood'. 

Just a few thoughts on the subject.

bboy_mn