Harry=halfblood?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76223

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steven" <sngoing at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> > Geoff Bannister wrote:
> > 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.

> Steven:
> 
> Debating the semantics is part of the fun, isn't it? Aren't we all 
> engaged in speculation based on semantics ...

bboy_mn:

Yes, WE debate the semantics, but that was hardly the time or place or
person with which Harry should have debated the semantics. I just
don't see Harry and Bellatrix stopping in the middle of everything for
along debate and a cup of tea while everyone else stood around
twiddling their thumbs.

I still say that the definition of halfblood is flexible and
determined by the prejusdices of the people using the term, or the
company and context in which it is used.

For example, Dumbledore uses the term halfblood when referring to
Harry, but considering the people and the context of the conversation,
the participating parties had an unspoken agreement as to what
Halfblood meant. That meaning did not comform to a technical
definition but the the people and context.

Beauty and blood are in the eye of the beholder.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn