[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Harry a pureblood? according to whom?

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 44159


Amy Z wrote: 
 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)
 
I thought at first that it was possible that Tom Riddle, when he was getting his information on Harry and the outside world from Ginny, could have been erroneously told by Ginny that Harry's mother was a Muggle, rather than a Muggle-BORN witch.  However, it is true that the Voldemort who has lived through the fifty-odd years since the first opening of the CoS KNOWS that Lily Evans Potter was a witch, so his calling her a Muggle seems to indicate that he thinks Muggle-born magical folk are equivalent to actual Muggles.  This is consistent with his world-view in general.  However, I do not believe that we should use the world-view of an elitist and a racist to work out terminology in the Potterverse.  Elsewhere, there are statements to the effect that Harry, being the son of a witch and a wizard, qualifies for pure-blood status.  
--Barb 


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