Harry=halfblood?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "yairadubin"
> <two4menone4you88 at a...> wrote:
> > How come no one refers to Harry as a half-blood?  If his mother 
is a 
> > mudblood, as Snape's statement seems to imply, then Harry should 
be 
> > referred to as a half-blood. However, on the train to Hogwarts in 
> > PS/SS, Malfoy tries to warn him not to hang out with mudbloods 
and 
> > Weasleys - as if he's better than that. Considering the fact that 
> > Harry is exceedingly famous, it seems logical that the WW would 
know 
> > his lineage.
> > *Yaira*
> 


> bboy_mn:
> 
> Your 'blood' is not absolute, it is in the eye of the beholder. To 
the
> Malfoys and others obssessed with pure blood, if you have any 
muggles
> or muggle-borns anywhere in your family history, you are not a pure
> blood and therefore, automatically a mudblood.
> 
> Techincally, a half-blood would be half muggle and half wizard (Tom
> Riddle), NOT half muggle-born witch and half wizard father (Harry 
Potter).
> 
> But the terms are defined, not by formal definition, but by the
> prejudices of the person who is making the judgement. You will note
> for the paragraph above, that Harry is more of a pure blood that Tom
> Riddle. Both of Harry's parents are magical.
> 
> Mudblood - anyone whose blood isn't ancestrally pure back to the
> beginning of time. (Something I see as very unlikely)
> 
> Muggle-born - magical person of non-magical parents.
> 
> Half-blood - Half muggle; half magical.
> 
> Full-blood - both parents magical, but not necessarily pure-blood.
> 
> By the most techincal definition, Harry is a Full-blood, but not a
> pure-blood.
> 
> Again, techincal definitions mean nothing, when it is the prejudice 
of
> another person that determine who and what you are in their eyes.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> bboy_mn

Geoff:
Harry's take on that is interesting in OOTP:

"Shut your mouth!" Bellatix shrieked. "You dare speak his name with 
your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's 
tongue, you dare -"
"Did you know he's a half-blood too?" said Harry 
recklessly......."Voldemort? Yeah, his mother was a witch but his dad 
was a Muggle - or has he been telling you lot he's pure-blood?"

Harry seems to accept BL's comment re him being half-blood without 
contradiction.