Would Hagrid be considered a half-blood?

bowlwoman bowlwoman at yahoo.com
Mon May 12 06:07:54 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 57645

Forgive me if this has already been asked/discussed in the many posts 
regarding the blood classification subject, but I don't recall seeing 
it before.

Do the terms pure-blood, half-blood and mudblood refer to the 
wizarding community when talking only about their heritage with 
Muggles, or does it also refer to children of wizards and non-
Muggle/non-wizard folk?

Specifically, I'm asking if Hagrid (and possibly Madame Maxime) would 
be considered a half-blood because he had one parent who was a wizard 
and one who was a giant.  The references I've seen define "half-
blood" as a wizard/witch of mixed parentage with one of those parents 
being a MUGGLE.  Hagrid's other parent wasn't a Muggle, she was a 
giant.  Would these terms then still apply to him or is this all a 
mute point because giants are so feared and shunned in the WW that 
the fact Hagrid is half giant negates the whole issue (he's at the 
bottom of the totem pole anyway).

I don't know if any other inter-species breeding (man, that sounds so 
callous!) has occured or will occur in the WW, but I would love to 
see the impact it has on the purity of blood question.

bowlwoman 






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