Is Harry a pureblood? according to whom?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 44155

Jim wrote:

> 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.

Draco just hasn't worked his way up to Jim Crow level, in which "a 
drop of Muggle blood" means you're no better than a Muggle.  Give him 
time.  Voldemort, in contrast, comes within a hair of calling Lily, 
who was indubitably a witch, a Muggle:

  "You stand, Harry Potter, upon the remains of my late father," he 
hissed softly.  "A Muggle and a fool . . . very like your dear 
mother."  (GF 33)

One wonders, then, what he would call Harry.

Amy Z

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  "Your father thinks very highly of Mad-Eye
Moody," said Mrs. Weasley sternly.
  "Yeah, well, Dad collects plugs, doesn't he,"
said Fred quietly, as Mrs. Weasley left the room. 
"Birds of a feather."
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