[HPforGrownups] Re: Muggle-born adults

[Lisa G]

No: HPFGUIDX 75048

--- Melanie Black <princessmelabela at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

She and Harry may not be 'half breeds', but they are and will
never be pure blood. The muggle blood will never just disappear
from their lines. If Lily had two muggle parents but ended up a
wizard herself, Harry's got two wizard parents but is still
basically half-muggle. In the same way, if Lily had a wizard
parent and a muggle parent, Harry is 1/4 muggle.

It's an admittedly crude way of figuring it up, I'm sure there
are better terms to use (part-muggle doesn't make a lot of
sense, per the definition of muggle). But that's how it would
appear to me. You can't get rid of that heritage, it doesn't get
cancelled out by the birth of a wizard child.

Lisa G

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