[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily WAS muggle-born and what happened in CoS.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108544


--- Cathy Drolet <cldrolet at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> It all seems to be against Muggle-borns, far more than half-bloods.
>  Besides, Riddle is Slytherin's heir, and he is half-blood himself.


I don't get too hung up on the whole pureblood-halfblood definition
stuff because I suspect that it really doesn't stand up to careful
scrutiny. 

For the Malfoys and Blacks of the wizarding world, you'd have to be
able to trace your family back through multiple generations of
nothing but wizards and witches to qualify as a pureblood.  Of
course, it would then also help if you're wealthy, have a gruesome
old house, plenty of house elves and know a lot of Dark Arts spells. 


I lean towards the Red Hen publication argument that while Tom Riddle
hated his father, he really doesn't hate muggles or muggle-borns
anymore than he hates other people.  All that mudblood stuff is just
to rally the kind of troops he needs for his world conquest plans. 
That's why I reject the "Peter must be a pureblood because they let
him play in the DE sandbox" argument: Voldemort will take help
wherever he can get it until he reaches his goal.

I haven't seen anything in the series that indicates that being
considered a half-blood doesn't have more to do with the perceptions
of the person who's doing the considering rather than the person
being considered.  It seems to have more than a bit of "people we
don't like" mixed in with the designation.  And for those people who
are undeniably pureblood - by even the most intolerant standards -
like Arthur Weasley, there's always the "disgrace to the name of
wizard" insult to throw at them, as Cathy says.

As for Salazar Slytherin himself, again I site Red Hen Publications. 
I wouldn't necessarily take Tom Riddle's opinion on this as gospel.
Tom/VOldemort has an agenda and he/they have a tendency to alter the
facts to fit their preconceived notions.  So I'll give old Salazar a
break until I can see proof that he really hated muggleborns rather
than was just nervous about them.  

Magda


		
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