Purebloods (was Re: flowers)

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 72346

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Zeynep Oner <kozmoz4 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Remember in CoS, Draco says with relish 'the last
> time, a mudblood died'. So, since he knows everything
> other than some crucial details, about the last time,
> that should be true, meaning Myrtle is muggle-born. 
> 
> I know that she died a fifty years ago, but how could
> she, being dead, have descendants? Also she was a
> witch in a line of muggles, how can her descendants be
> pureblood?
> 
> Oh or do you mean ancestors instead of descendants?
> But still...
> 

Wait, don't confuse me... I'm about to say something that needs 
thinking about!

Okay, I know that in the WW we have these old far-back-as-the-dawn-
of-time Pureblood families, like the Blacks and the Malfoys, but in 
my understanding, all it requires to be a pureblood is to have a 
wizard and a witch as parents.  I know Harry is referred to in CoS 
and again in OOP as a half-blood, despite him having two magical 
parents, because one was muggle-born.  But many generations does 
this "muggleborn" taint last?  I know the nazi-esque DEs would 
probably say any drop of muggle blood is enough to taint the whole 
line - but what about in the more moderate wizarding world?  If 
Harry had kids with a witch, and they had kids with a witch etc, how 
many generations would it be before they were generally understood 
to be purebloods? 

So, Myrtle's pureblood descendants - presumably she wasn't a teenage 
mother, so they wouldn't be direct descendants, but let's say she 
had a cousin who was also a witch who married a wizard who had kids 
etc etc and a little bit down the line there'd be kids who could be 
described as pure-blooded by everyone who didn't have a real fetish 
for eugenics... right?  

So, as a counter to a few people on this board who've said all pure-
blooded characters must be related to each other in some way, due to 
inbreeding - hence Harry must somehow be related to Sirius though 
his pureblood father- maybe not.  Maybe you can still be a pureblood 
with muggle ancestors.    

This is just speculation, of course.  See, I'd've described Harry 
himself as a pureblood, except it says not in canon.  Maybe his kids 
would be quarter-bloods.  And then eighth-bloods!  And then... well, 
you get the picture!

^_^  Faith's Girl