Wizard Genetics (Was Re: Lily's Family)

[lilypo2007]

No: HPFGUIDX 109376

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lifeavantgarde" 
<musicofsilence at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmay_71" <jmay_71 at y...> 
wrote:
> > Stefanie:
> > 
> > "Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because 
> of his MOTHER'S GRANDPARENTS."
> > To me this is HUGE. 
> > 
> > Steve:
> > > Until the statement has remained unchallenged on her website   
> >for 30 days, I'm not considering it a fact. Personally, I think  
> > > she actually meant to say either 'his mother's PARENTS' or  
> > > Harry's grandparents. 


> > dcgmck:
> > 
> > OK.  Caution duly noted... But... If, in fact, JKR actually 
> >  titillated us intentionally instead of accidentally (and not 
> just 
> > out of the excitement of her recently announced pregnancy), why 
do I have no recollection of anyone ever calling Harry a 'mudblood'?  
> >Malfoy exhibits no reticence in using the term on everyone else of 
> > evident Muggle heritage, so why stop with Harry, whom he so 
> clearly loathes and envies?

> jmay:
> I may be a bit off topic here, but I am gonna go out on a limb and 
guess that whether or not JKR made a mistake with Lily's parents 
>or grandparents doesn't really matter.The big point she is trying to 
make is that classification by blood is ridiculous.She shows this 
> by comparing the DEs to the Nazis.  The complete and total irony 
> being both groups are/were following a leader who's genetic 
> background included that which they hate.


I agree with Steve and jmay, that we must wait and that this issue is 
not important. And I can add a very good reason. The English and 
Italian versions of the site tell us that Lily's grandparents were 
muggles. But the French, German and Spanish versions tell us Harry's 
grandparents were muggles. So there is a mistake somewhere. If it was 
so important that one of Lily's parents was not a muggle she wouldn't 
allow this mistake to remain in her site for two weeks. She surely 
would have noticed it, since she used to be a French teacher. I 
suppose she must know some Spanish as well, because she lived in 
Portugal and Portuguese and Spanish have much in common (Portuguese 
is my first language - any people with a little knowledge of 
Portuguese would understand that sentence).
So, I think, this is not a really important question, or else she 
would have noticed it and would have already corrected the mistake.

And dcgmck, Harry is a half-blood, not a muggle-born. Malfoy use the 
word mud-blood to label people like Hermione, whose parents (both) 
are muggles. James was neither a muggle nor a muggle-born. that means 
Harry would never be a mud-blood.
But there are several people who call Lily either a muggle-born or a 
mudblood : Harry himself (CoS, when he is talking to Tom Riddle), 
Snape (OotP, in the scene of the Pensieve), Hagrid (PS/SS). 
Lilyp