Is Harry a pureblood? Was "a question"

[bugaloo37]

No: HPFGUIDX 44157

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
><snip> 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.

Apparently, I do not understand the "pureblood", "half-
blood", "mudblood" concepts.  This is how I understood 
it:  "purebloods" are those who can trace both paternally and 
maternally their family lineage and find no muggle ancestry-obviously 
a very difficult thing to do since according to Ron, there are hardly 
any wizard families that have not intermarried with muggles.  
Therefore according to this idea, a "half-blood", would be one who 
could trace only one side-father or mother-and find it "pure" or in 
other words- muggle-free, i.e., Harry Potter, Tom Riddle.  To finish 
this concept out, a "mudblood" would be a wizard/witch with both 
parents being Muggles-in other words, no wizard families in their 
family tree.  And as for these "rules" being in the realm of the 
Aryan/ Nazi laws,  I read in an interview yesterday where JKR herself 
compared Voldemort and his ideas to Hitler and his concept of a 
master race. She also stated in this same interview that 
predjudice/bigotry was a central theme of the HP series. As for 
Draco, I cannot recall that he has ever expressed any contempt for 
Harry's "half-blood" status or anyone else's "half-blood" status for 
that matter.  He apparently reserves his extreme disdain 
for "mudbloods" such as Hermione-at least in regards to making 
judgements based on blood-line purity.  He finds other things to 
taunt Harry about other than his ancestry.    

bugaloo37 -who loves Harry Potter and the Weasleys for determining 
Hermione's worth as a person and a friend based on her obvious 
intelligence and lovingly loyal heart.