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

[lissbell at colfax.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 70455


Lissa 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.)
>>


Random replied:
> 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.


Lissa replied:
Hmmm, well... except that Draco kinda does ask Harry about his parents. 
    (Lissa grabs her paperback copy of SS, finds the page on which she's 
scrawled "oh man Draco you stupid twit" in angry lettering, and 
double-checks to make sure she hasn't just gone mad and hallucinated a 
Malfoy quote.)  But I understand that you interpret the scene 
differently than I do.  Also, I'd acknowledge that Draco suggests 
Hogwarts should be reserved for students from "old wizarding families" 
(SS paperback p 78).

I was probably just being pitifully stupid in my ramblings yesterday, 
Random.  Feel free to ignore my suggestion that Draco's standard for 
blood purity might be less stringent than Tom Riddle's.  It is extremely 
unlikely--which I think is your main point.  (Lissa shakes her head in 
embarrassment.)  Sometimes I'm just a silly idiot like that.

Rather Obsessed With Everything Draco's Ever Said,
Lissa B