[HPforGrownups] Re: Pure Blood Parentage

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 75698


> How long are you a half-blood?  

> > bibphile:
> > I think most wizard would consider Harry and his decendents half-
> > blood for four or five generations at least.  The snobby ones would
> > consider them half-bloods forever.  They probably think that if you
> > have any tracable muggle-heritage at all, you're half-blood.

> Garrett
> Somthing that goes along with this thread is that in CoS Justin Flinch
> states that he has been a pure bllod for 9 generations 
> Does this mean after a certain amount of time his elders became pure
> bloods again?

In Dark Ages, Medieval Spain suffered a 'blood cleaning' process. No Jews or 
Arabian folk. The rule was if you could prove your four grandparents were 
clean, your blood was clean. Of course, many people had to fake their 
ascendency. I'm sure if you had a great enemy, 3 generations wasn't enough, 
but it was the common rule.

Or if you were rich enough, you just could buy it. My father's  family (a tale 
is told to every generation) donated a chapel during the building of Toledo's 
Cathedral to avoid leaving the country. Zap! Instant transformation from Jew 
to good old Christian blood (if this isn't the Philosopher's Stone 
transforming gold in blood...). 

silmariel