Harry=halfblood?

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No: HPFGUIDX 76063

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.


Dumbledore also refers to Harry as a half-blood in his explanation of 
the prophecy "and notice this Harry, he chose not the 
pureblood....but the halfblood...." (page 842 american)

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