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No: HPFGUIDX 90654

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mrsbrooksathome"
> <mrsbrooksathome at y...> wrote:
> > I would really be interested in knowing Harry's geneology.  I 
recall someone saying that Lily was a mudblood... so which side was 
her magical parentage on?  And was James a pureblood?  > > 
> > Steph
> 
> Lily is a Muggle-born, so there wouldn't be any *known* wizarding
> heritage on either side. But because of the appearance of Mark 
Evans in OoP (an apparent Muggle but just the right age to come to 
Hogwarts next year if he, too, turns out to be a Muggle-born with 
Magical powers), I think that a few generations back there must have 
been a wizard or witch in the Evans line, maybe with Squib children 
who passed as Muggles, married Muggles, and produced Muggle 
children, so that even Dumbledore doesn't know about Lily's and 
Mark's magical ancestor (who would also, of course, be Harry's, 
Petunia's, and Dudley's ancestor).
> 
> As for James, he wasn't a Muggle-born so his parents must have 
been a witch and a wizard. And since there's no evidence that either 
of his parents was Muggle-born, so he was probably a pure-blood (or 
at any rate a full-blood, if you make that distinction). As his 
parents seem to have been wealthy (JKR says that James's money was 
inherited), I'm guessing that yes, James was a pureblood.

I've also wondered about this pure-blood, half-blood, mudblood 
distinction.  In PS/SS, Draco asks Harry if his parents are 'our' 
kind and Harry responds that his parents are a witch and a wizard 
which seems to placate Draco.  There are other smaller suggestions 
in the canon that a pure-blood is someone that had a witch and 
wizard as parents.  But it also seems pretty clear that Lily was 
muggle-born and quite a big deal is made on different occasions 
about Neville being pureblood and Harry not.  So, a pure-blood could 
not be simply someone born to a witch and wizard, there has to be 
some deeper magical lineage.  Mudbloods are muggle born.  Half-
bloods have one magical parent and one muggle.  But what would Harry 
be?  He doesn't seem to fit the three categories that have clear 
definitions.  He must be somewhere being pure and half, so is there 
a classification for this type of person with just a little muggle 
blood.  I don't think there is any indication in the canon regarding 
this situation other than to say Harry is not pureblood.  (The witch 
or wizard born to squibs is an even more interesting notion- if the 
squibs were from pureblood families and gave birth to magical 
offspring, is the off-spring then pureblood?)

Jeff