Is Harry a pureblood? Was "a question"

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 44174

Bugaloo37:"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."

This confusion is exactly why these distinctions are so distatesful 
and divisive, and why going down that road is such a slippery slope.  
It's clear, though, that the term "Mudblood" has the same emotional 
punch as our ugliest racial epithet. 

JKR clearly is saying a lot about prejudice, *and* about jumping to 
conclusions - Lupin, Sirius Black, Hagrid and Madame Maxime, even 
Snape. OTOH, she is not, however, going down the road of moral 
equivalence. We'll never see a sympathetic dementor character, or 
hear that what Dumbledore does in the war is just as bad as what 
Lucius does.

"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."

Amen, sister - (brother?)