Terms for Blood (WAS: Re: Quote from GOF)

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 56826

Nicole quoted GoF:
"You stand, Harry Potter, upon 
the remains of my late father", 
he hissed softly, "A muggle and 
a fool...very like your dear 
mother..."

And then wrote:
I was just reading GOF again 
to refresh my memory and get 
ready to move on to OOTP and 
came across this sentence that 
Voldemort speaks to Harry in 
the graveyard. Why does he 
compare Lily to his father? 
was Lily a muggle? I thought Harry's parents were a wizard and a 
witch. Any thoughts on this? Maybe I am just not understanding the 
quote properly.

I comment:
I can't find the interview in which I originally read this, but I'm 
almost positive that, at one point, JKR called Harry a 'half-blood.' 
That totally confused me, because since he's the stock of a witch and 
wizard, I figured that made him 'pure-blood.'

So, James (as far as we know) was 'pure-blood,' but Lily was 
a 'mudblood.' And, since Harry's the result of a union between 
a 'pure-blood' and a 'mudblood,' that makes him a 'half-blood.'

And, since Voldemort is the result of the union between a Muggle and 
a 'pure-blood' (at least, I'm assuming that's what his mother was,) I 
guess that makes Voldemort a 'half-blood' too.

At least, I think that's how it works. I dunno. The quote got me when 
I read it, too. ;-)

-Tom