[HPforGrownups] Re: A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[Random]

No: HPFGUIDX 70130


On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 05:05 America/Indianapolis, 
lissbell at colfax.com wrote:
> This could be another possibility.  Or perhaps a student's blood would
> be sufficiently pure for Slytherin if neither parent was a muggle.
> (Draco doesn't, after all, inquire about Harry's grandparents in Madame
> Malkin's.)

Nor does he ask about his parents... he asks about "pure-blood", 
presuming that Harry knows what he means (and someone brought up in a 
wizarding family, even if with only one pureblood parent, or even only 
second-generation child of two muggle-born, _would_ know) and Harry 
doesn't quite know the same definition. Imagine if the obliviators (are 
they called that in canon? the MoM squads who go around doing memory 
charms in the Dept. of Reversal of accidental magic) asked "are you a 
muggle?" before zapping someone; they wouldn't get much at all done 
because it _sounds_ derogatory even if it's not and besides, no 
"muggle" knows what it means.

--Random832