Is Harry a pureblood? according to whom?

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 44164

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barb P <psychic_serpent at y...> wrote::

<Voldemort says>
> 
>   "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.  


There is an interesting section on this in the Lexicon, but I would 
support the view that Harry is an "Half-Blood" -

In  Ch 17, CoS Voldemort calls Harry a Half-Blood - when discussing 
their similarities: they are both half-bloods.

Hagrid infers that Harry is a Half-Blood in C 24 GoF when he tells 
Harry that he would love him to win the TriWizard championship to 
prove that you don't have to be a Pureblood to do it.

I apologise for the lack of link but JKR also called Harry a "Half-
Blood" in one of her interviews. Given that she has defined the WW, 
and the prejudices which accompany it, IMO we are meant to see Harry 
as a Half-Blood.

Ali

Who is curious about the name "Lily Evans Potter" - in Brit. speak we 
would call her Lily Potter nee Evans, unless we knew that she had 
deliberately kept her maiden name as a middle name. This does happen 
occasionally. Some women "double-barrow" their surnames, and we would 
then have Lily Evans-Potter. Most likely though, Lily would simply be 
Lily Potter.