Muggle-born adults

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
My reply:  Would somebody please tell me why on Earth everybody 
keeps saying that Tonks is a half breed.  TED IS NOT A MUGGLE!
 
Tonks is no more of a half breed than Harry.  
  
Proof?  Two quotes from the book clearly back me up.  
"My dad's a MUGGLE-BORN and he's a right old slob."  (OOP, pg 50 US 
edition)
  
"Andromeda's sisters are still here because they made lovely, 
respectable, pureblood marriages, but Andromeda married a muggle-
born Ted Tonks, so-" (Sirius quote, pg. 113, US edition).  
  
Now unless my copy says something different than yours we see two 
references of Ted Tonks being a muggle born wizard, and nothing to 
dispute that fact.  
>  
> ~Melanie

Ted is muggle-born.  I don't know why so many people are mixed up 
about that.  However, it looks as if wizarding sosiety considers 
someone half-blood if they have a muggle-born parent.  (Harry has 
been referred to as a half-blood on two occassions and never as a 
pureblood.)  If that's the case then Tonks would count too.

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