Halfblood v. Pureblood

[justcarol67]

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Melissa wrote:
> I tend to think of Harry as a Full-blood rather than Half-blood.  The 
> difference  IMO between Full and Half is that Harry has two magical
parents.  A true 
> halfblood (also IMO) is someone with one magical and one muggle parent 
> (examples include Seamus, Tonks and even Voldemort himself.)  All
had one magical 
> parent (their mums coincidentally enough) and one muggle parent. 
Whereas 
> Pure-bloods are families like the  Weasleys, Longbottoms or Malfoys.
 Not a drop of 
> muggle blood anywhere in their veins.
> 
> Melissa

Dumbledore himself distinguished between Harry, the half blood, and
Neville, the pure blood, and pointed out that Voldemort went after
Harry, the one who was more like himself (and therefore, in his view,
the greater danger?). The memory of young Tom Riddle also compared
Harry with himself in the basilisk scene in CS: "You'll be with your
muggle mother soon, Potter!" or something like that. The distinction
is important to Voldemort and Dumbledore and therefore to us as
readers. Harry had two wizard parents but one was muggle-born;
therefore, he's somewhere between a pure blood like Sirius or Draco
and a "mudblood" like Hermione. "Halfblood" is the only category that
fits.

Carol