[HPforGrownups] Re: Another Flint? (Was: When?)

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 119032


> kjirstem wrote:
>> >
>> > I've wondered if the Creeveys were part house-elf since they are
> always described as being very small.
>
>>
> Juli: responded:
>> Half-elves? is that even possible? They are small but I was thinking
>> 4 feet tall or 1.20 meters, that's short for a 14 year old, but not
>> a midget, I always believed they were 100% muggle, and they just
>> come from a short family. Would a half-elf be allowed to enter
>> Hogwarts?
>
>
> Carol responds:
> Well, a half-giant (Hagrid) was allowed to enter Hogwarts, and some
> posters have speculated that Flitwick is half house-elf (or half golbin)
>
> But I think that first, no one would have thought those kids were
> muggle-born if the remotely resembled house-elves, who, besides being
> extremely small, are completely bald and have huge pointy ears. And
> the likelihood of a house-elf meeting and marrying a Muggle is also
> extremely small. (I don't think a house-elf would even marry a wizard
> given their born-to-serve mentality.)
>
> The fact that Colin was one of the basilisk's victims also seems to
> confirm that he really is Muggle-born.
>
charme:

While I can understand your point, Carol, I've a huge interest in genetics 
and genealogy - and I don't think we've heard the last of what constitutes 
Muggle parentage. For example, canon in both CoS and OoP refers to the 
concepts of half-blood, pureblood, creature (like elves and goblins) and 
Muggle, yet to my warped way of thinking the only clearly defined 
definitions of that list are the first three. For example, what if 2 Squibs 
marry and generations pass with no wizard children? Do they become Muggle at 
some point after moving away from the wizarding world thru the generations 
and lo and behold, a wizard child is born to 2 seemingly Muggle parents? 
It's a curious thing to me that isn't fully explained, and only made more 
complex by JKR's statements regarding how she came up with the bloodline 
classifications and how they resembled Hitler's in determining "purity." 
Having been exposed to the US Holocaust Memorial Musuem as I have (it's in 
my proximity) and seen/read how bloodline purity was defined, I don't know 
that part wizard, elf, giant or goblin blood being introduced by some means 
in a family genealogy can be completely eliminated.

charme