Is Harry a pureblood? according to whom?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 44173

Phyllis, quoting JKR in a 2000 Newsround interview:"Then he finds out 
that it does happen and it's a shock to him. He finds out that he is 
a half-blood: to a wizard like Lucius Malfoy, he will never be a true 
wizard, because his mother was of Muggle parentage. It's a very 
important theme."

Well, JKR said it, so what can I say? Thanks for finding the quote.  
But it leaves a question pretty much like the previous question: If 
Harry, the son of a witch and wizard, is a half-blood, then what's 
Seamus Finnegan, the son of a wizard and a Muggle?

Consider this: Suppose Harry, instead of being a wizard, was the son 
of a naturalized citizen and a natural-born citizen? What would you 
call him?

It proves what Barb was getting at: Once you start down the road of 
labeling people to sort them by intrinsic "merit," racism-classism-
elitism is close at hand. The definition shifts to suit the purpose 
of the jerk who wants to put somebody "in their place."  I stand by 
what I said that Draco didn't *appear* to consider him a Mudblood; 
but it looks like Voldemort, with even less of a "pedigree," does.

It's not a pleasant road to go down.