How_Rare_are_Muggle-borns?_and_Analysis_of_Purity_in_the_Order

[House Yolande]

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Hey again! I've found more stuff relating to our HP talk last night. :) I couldn't think of the phrase last night, but Hermione is "muggle-born." So not muggle, but muggle-born. And James Potter is full blood. More info below (I've deleted the book 5-related info):
 
Please forgive this *very* the long post!!!  All of this discussion 
about the halfblood prince has got me thinking about the rarity of 
Muggle-born wizards.  I apologize if this has been discussed before, 
but it seems to me that we have seen very few purely Muggle-born 
wizards throughout the books.  I believe the only ones we can be sure 
of are Hermione and Moaning Myrtle; is it likely that all of the 
students attacked in CoS were Muggle-born?  Here are the attacks: 

Mrs. Norris – cat of a Squib; probably an accidental attack.

Colin Creevey – father is a milkman; don't have enough
information on 
his mother.  Possibly he and Dennis are pure Muggle-borns.

Justin Finch-Fletchley – probably Muggle-born.

Hermione – Muggle-born.

Penelope Clearwater – not enough information.

Moaning Myrtle – Muggle-born student who died when CoS originally 
opened.

So I'm thinking that just as Tom Riddle sought to complete what
he 
considered "Salazar Slytherin's noble work" (Scholastic
Cos 312), 
Harry is the living representation of Dumbledore's philosophy
that 
purity of blood is meaningless.  And Dumbledore has created a 
Hogwarts where Harry has more opportunity to meet and befriend Muggle-
borns and halfbloods.  

[snip...]

James Potter – Pureblood.  Harry is called a halfblood by
Dumbledore on p. 842 of Scholastic OoP [Book 5], so James must have been a 
pureblood--assuming Lily was Muggle-born. 

Lily Potter – Muggle-born, as far as we know.  


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