Is Harry really a halfblood? Or a 100% pureblood?

[nibleswik]

No: HPFGUIDX 85005

<snip>
> And I'm rereading OOTP and I got to thinking.  What if, mind you, 
> what if Petunia were really a Squib?  What if Harry isn't a 
>halfblood at all?
> 
> For instance, on p205 of OOTP (US version) in the sorting hat's 
>song.  I think there's a clue!  "Slytherin took only pure-blood 
>wizards of great cunning, just like him."  We know the sorting hat 
> wanted to place Harry into Slytherin.
> 
> And Voldemort.  Now we know his dad was a muggle.  But was he also 
> in Slytherin?  So do they then consider him a a pureblood because 
> of his mother? <snip>

Me:
I suppose it's possible that Petunia is a Squib. I think there's 
evidence against it, for example, in SS/PS (I don't have my books, 
so I couldn't double-check that this isn't the Dreaded Movie 
Contamination), she says something like, "My parents were so proud. 
We have a witch in the family!" If this is the movie, I apologize, 
but that certainly implies that she was the only one. I mean, *a* 
witch. Not "the five hundred and thirtieth in our wizarding family's 
rich tradition". Also, LV tells Harry in CoS, "You'll be with your 
Muggle mother soon!" And would Petunia think Lily was a freak for 
turning mice into teacups if she'd been exposed to it her entire 
life? I doubt it.

Second, we DON'T know that the Hat wanted to place him in Slytherin. 
As bboy_mn said in message 84899, an excellent post, Harry brought 
up Slytherin, not the Hat. The Hat didn't try to push Slytherin or 
anything.

Voldemort is considered a halfblood. A pureblood can't have a muggle 
parent, as he did. Harry isn't even considered a pureblood, and both 
his parents were wizards. His mother was muggle-born, though, so 
it's not pure *enough*. I think the line about Slytherin taking only 
pure-bloods referred to the time when the founders were hand-picking 
their students. Keep in mind, also, that one thousand years ago, 
there were a lot more purebloods, so, while it was still arbitrary, 
it wasn't as ridiculous. The other possibility, of course, is that 
the Sorting Hat was exaggerating. But LV's definitely a halfblood.

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