OotP: Family Trees, house elves

[rlharalson]

No: HPFGUIDX 63071

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "innovan" <innovan at y...> wrote:
> OotP Spoilers
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> Confusing things:
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> Bellatrix Lestrange calls Harry a half-blood. Is she stupid? Malfoy 
> has all family trees memorized, you think the rest of the D.E. 
would 
> as well.
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I'm not sure why you would ask if she was stupid? Harry is a half-
blood. His mother was like Hermione a witch born to muggle parents 
therefore by bad guy standard of Muggle blood regardless of her 
talent. So technically Harry is a half-blood. I think it is very 
telling that the Death Eaters don't seem to know that Voldermort 
himself is half-blood and his Muggle half didn't even have wizarding 
power. I wonder if that will go back into play in later books.

> The Weasleys are not on Sirius Black's family tree because they are 
> "blood traitors". Does this mean they were disowned by their 
families? 

The Black tree would only show any Weasleys if they married into the 
Black family and my guess is that any Weasley would probably only 
marry a Black likely to be good and thus disowned by the Blacks 
themselves. It would be interesting to see a Weasley family tree and 
see if any Black's or Malfoy's turned good show up on it.
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> House Elves are sworn to serve a family line. Are the Weasleys 
denied 
> house elves as part of being disowned by their families? 

I would think the Weasley's choose not to have house-elves, besides 
they probably cost money, you know an extra mouth to feed. -Renee
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> "Innovan"