OOP: Bloodlines, Thestrals, Pensieves, and Apparations (possible spoilers)

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 66068

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Boggess Ramon 
 <boggles at e...> wrote:

> > >That bit about Harry being a half-blood doesn't really sit well 
> with me.  IMO Harry has more wizarding blood than LV simply 
because, even though Lily was muggle-born she was a witch.  Only one 
of LV's parents, his mother, possessed wizarding blood.  His father 
was pure muggle.<<<<
> > 

Iadoreharry responded:-
 >>>  Moreover, there are suggestions (in particular, Ernie 
Macmillan's protestation that he can trace his family back for nine 
generations of wizards in Ch. 11 of CoS) that "half-blood" doesn't 
have to be literal - a wizard with only one Muggle great-grandparent 
might still be considered a half-blood.  

 I  rather suspect the Malfoys hold to the "one-drop rule" - if you 
 have any traceable Muggle ancestry at all, you're not a pureblood.

<<snip>>

I find it interesting that none of the deatheaters seem to care that 
Tom/LV is only a half wizard except that when Harry brings that up 
 to Bellatrix, she gets furious.  It seems to undermine their whole 
 agenda if their leader is exactly the thing they're against!<<<<

Ali:-

I think that Hitler's attitude to the Jews is pertinent here. Hitler 
believed (IIRC) that he had Jewish blood from his father's side. His 
hatred of his father is perhaps one of the causes of his hatred of 
the Jews. the Nazis were therefore led by someone who believed 
himself to have Jewish blood. Yes, the Death Eaters attitude is 
hypocritical, but it does have real life precedent.

In terms of the half-blood definition; I think the term is used to 
describe someone who is not a "pure-blood". We are not given a 
definition of what a pure-blood would be. Perhaps again, it would be 
similar to the Nazi definition of Jew, which I believe went back 3 
generations.


Iadoreharry re seeing the Thestrals

>>>Also technically, in the Sorcerers Stone, Harry killed Quirell by 
 touching him with his hands. Either way- he certainly saw Quirell 
 die so why couldn't he see the thestrals his second year?<<<

This is not actually true. In PS, Dumbeldore arrived in time to pull 
Quirrell off Harry. Harry felt Quirrel wrenched from his grasp, but 
then lapsed into unconsciousness. Voldemort left Quirrel to die" (p. 
216 PS UK edition) - but this happened after Harry had lost 
consciousness, so Harry never saw Quirrell die.

Ali