Muggle-borns

[lindseyharrisst <lindseyharrisst@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49280

--Taryn, with her first post:

> I would say that the definition of Lucius and the Death Eaters 
>would be similar to that of the Nazi's. After all, in CoS, Tom 
>refers to Harry as a half-blood (when quoting the similarities 
>between them) even though his mother was a witch. It seemed that his 
>mother being muggle-born was enough for Voldemort to think of Harry 
>as "contaminated," as it were--again, similar to the definition of a 
>Jew during the Holocaust. However, I don't know how far back this 
>would go, whether having one muggle-born grandparent would make you 
>a half-blood, or a great-grandparent. But, at least to Voldemort 
>(and his opinion on this is probably shared by the DE's), having one 
>muggle-born parent marks you as a half-blood, even if you are, by 
>literal definition, a pure-blood.


Thank you for your thoughts and many congratulations on your first 
post;)I had forgotten Voldemort called Harry a mudblood in CoS and 
this leads me to think, as has been suggested, that the main point 
is that a person is a mudblood if they are *known* to have any 
muggle blood at all. If Haryy had not been famous, it is doubtful 
anyone would be able to pin him as a mudblood.

Snapesangel