Muggle-born adults

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No: HPFGUIDX 74958

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oh have faith" 
<rshuson80 at y...> wrote:
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Arthur Weasley, you might think, has muggle ancestory because of his 
very muggle name, but his delighted ignorance about all things 
muggle suggests he can't actually have had one for a parent, and 
Molly we know from OOP is a cousin of the Blacks, and so also 
pureblood. 
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Arthur is definately pureblood.  The Weasleys have been referred to 
as an old pureblood family (COS).

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I can't think of a single adult character, besides the two half-
bloods, who have any name or habits or mannerisms that suggest they 
might be muggle born.  
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I think that might be partially because of who we've met.  The adult 
we've met have almost all been either teacher (whose ancestory we 
know nothing about) or Ministry employees.  Molly said at the end of 
Gof that Fudge favored those who had pride in wizarding blood.  That 
means MoM employees of any rank are likely to be purebloods.

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This made me wonder if there might not be a reason for this.  Were 
huge numbers of muggle-borns killed or frightened back into hiding 
in the muggle world by Voldemort, leaving the wizard world with a 
shortage?  Is prejudice so entrenched in wizarding society that it's 
hard to get a job without a Name?  Do muggle-borns just tend to 
drift back into muggle society and find jobs there?  Do they tend to 
take new names and forge new habits to blend in?  
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I don't doubt that lots of muggle-borns and half-bloods were killed 
when Voldemort was powerful, but I think there are many still alive 
and part of wizarding society.  Ron said that most wizards were half-
blood.  (Of course, you're considered half-blood if you had one 
muggle great-great-grandparent, as far as I can tell).  That implies 
there are quite a few of them.

Faith's Girl