Muggle-born adults

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 74999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oh have faith" 
<rshuson80 at y...> wrote:

Faith's Girl:
> This thought occurred to me in a discussion last night and I was 
> interested to know what others thought;
> 
> Though there are plenty of students at Hogwarts who are muggle-
born, 
> or half-blood, there doesn't seem to be an *adult* character who is 
> anything but pureblood.  The only exceptions I can think of is 
> Nymphadora Tonks, who we learn in OOP is a half-blood with a muggle 
> father, and Tom Riddle, who got a mundane muggle name to go with 
his 
> muggle ancestory.  
> 
> 

Me:
I think it is only because, as others have pointed out, that we 
haven't met more...

"It's a disgusting thing to call someone", said Ron, wiping his 
sweaty brow with a shaking hand, "Dirty blood, see. Common blood. 
It's mad. Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't 
married Muggles, we'd've died out."

(CoS chapter "Mudbloods and Murmurs")