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

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 44449

Okay:  at what point does one stop being a "half-blood" or "Muggle-born" and 
start being a "pureblood"?

My belief is that is must happen, and that there is probably a generational 
point at which one becomes regarded as "pureblood".

I think that the "magic allele" is a spontaneous but evidently not unheard 
of mutation, and that someone like Hermione is quite obviously magical 
though born of muggle parents.  I don't thik it's mandatory that she has 
magical and then squib blood back there somewhere.  To assume that would be 
to assume that wizards were a race apart and had always existed apart since 
the dawn of humanity/wizardity; and I don't think that's the way JKR is 
writing.

I would think that probably there is some sort of tacit understood rule, for 
those who cared to track such things, that say someone like Hermione was 
born of pure muggle parentage - first generation.  She married a "pureblood" 
like Ron, and they reproduced - their children are "halfbloods" but all 
wizards and witches.  Say in the third generation those children all marry 
either purebloods or halfbloods like themselves, thereby further 
"strengthening" the "pure wizard strain".  Let's say by generation four, one 
squib has appeared in the lot just becuase the mutation has naturally 
weakened over time = mutations tend to do that, they don't breed true - but 
there are 15 other variously combined siblings and cousins who are now 
accepted as "purebloods" by the wizarding community - largely becauase no 
one is there to wave a large genealogical chart in front of everyone else 
showing their antecedents.

I think some dynamic like this is logical, or else Draco wouldn't have 
aything to do with anyone else.  And whatever the Malfoys come up with to 
say about the Weasleys, accusations about their bloodline is not among the 
charges.

Felinia

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