Question about James

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No: HPFGUIDX 78930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fawkes970" 
<sollecks970 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Christy" 
<christyj2323 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Hi y'all,
> > 
> > I have a question that I haven't been able to find an answes 
to, and
> > was wondering if somebody could give me either an answer 
or a place 
> to
> > check (other than the Lexicon, which I have checked).
> > 
> > Do we know or have any idea if James' family was one of the 
pure
> > blooded wizard families? I know that there's been almost no 
> reference
> > to them in the books, but I've been considering some things, 
and was
> > wondering if there was a consensus about this. And so far 
have found
> > nothing to indicate one way or the other. Am I missing 
something?
> 
> 
> 
> Well Christy: Comments about purebloods and mudbloods 
have led me to 
> beleive that James is infact pure blood: this is because when 
people 
> tunr on Harry and refer to Lily as a mudblood, nobody ever 
uses James 
> either: My question is how harry is a half-blood? if his mother 
and 
> father were both indeed with+wizard, why wouldnt they start a 
pure 
> blood generation? any comments?
> 
> "Pat (fawkes)"

I think the point is that purists in the WW consider "mudbloods" 
to be less than wizards/witches - since Harry is half wizard and 
half "mudblood" he is a half-blood wizard. It may be ridiculous, 
but it's exactly how we deal with race identity (definitely in 
America).  Harry is likened to a 'mulatto'. It doesn't matter that Lily 
was a witch, she was still the child of two muggles - And as far 
as Harry is concerned it only takes a drop of muggle blood to be 
considered unpure, and he's got much more than a drop.

-> QoE - who thinks that JkR has a lot of issues bubbling (not so 
far) under the surface of these very entertaining books about 
magic ; )