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

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 56827

 "Tom Wall" : wrote
 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.

Ali replies:-

LOON to your rescue. Tom Riddle calls Harry an "half-blood" when 
discussing their similarities in the Chamber of Secrets:

P233 UK edition

"there are strange likenesses between us, Harry Potter. Even you 
must have noticed, both half-bloods, orphans raised by muggles...",

So, Voldemort certainly seems to think that they are both half-
bloods.

Ali, who doesn't like the term "mudblood" being used as a 
descriptive term preferring the more cumbersome "Muggleborn" 
or "Muggle" instead - but that is a personal preference.