[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry=halfblood?

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 76195

Geoff Bannister wrote:
> 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.

To have argued the point would have been to accept the 
proposition that it mattered.  Anyway, it was hardly the time to 
engage in a debate on semantics.