Is Harry a pureblood? Was "a question"

Jim Ferer jferer at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 18 14:57:01 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 44154

kel:"Always remember: the Sorting Hat wanted to put Harry, a wizard 
whose mother was muggle-born, into Slytherin. Harry is neither muggle-
born nor half blood... what IS he?"

If a "pureblood" is a witch or wizard whose parents were a witch and 
a wizard, then Harry is a first-generation pureblood.  To go any 
farther than that is getting into the realm of the Jim Crow laws or 
the Aryan laws of Nazi Germany.

It looks like that's how people like Draco see it, too, because he 
never called *Harry* a "Mudblood," and was willing to befriend him, 
at first.





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