Pureblood Vs. Halfblood (was Dudley as HBP??!!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 106358

Jake summarised:> 
> 
> A pure-blood is someone with direct blood lineage on both sides of 
> their immediate family (pure-bloods will, by the way, attempt to 
> prove they are more pure than other pure-bloods--Ernie and Malfoy--
> because the extent of your purity is a symbol of presige).
> 
> A half-blood is someone with at least a drop of old-wizarding 
blood. 
> Some half-bloods, of course, will attempt to claim purity. Others 
> will be labeled so thin in old-blood as to be out of the lineage. 
But 
> any amount of blood counts and, in an aristocracy, would be useful.
> 
> A muggle-blood has no connection to the old blood. The only way to 
> move up (once again, this is an oppressive framework benefitting 
> those at the top--not surprising since it's their framework) is to 
> buy into the blood (through marriage). The muggle-blood that 
marries 
> a pure or half, of course, remains a muggle-blood, but their 
children 
> will then move up in blood status. 
> 
> What would happen if two muggle-bloods had a child? Nothing (in 
terms 
> of blood). Think about it: If two rich merchants had a child, the 
> child wouldn't suddenly become royality. To become royality, in an 
> aristocracy, you have to merge with the lineage itself.
> 

Tilly adds:

I think the difference is that I see muggle-born wizards as analogous 
to newly created nobles rather than simply rich merchants. (Granted 
most of the time the newly created nobles were rich merchants that 
were helping to bail out the king). From the point of view of the Old 
nobility, they were little more than trumped-up commoners. They also 
lacked the "proof of nobility", but they were nobles. Equally their 
children. Granted, they didn't have the same prestige as someone who 
was part of the old nobility but they were "noble-born".

Similarly the child of two muggle-born wizards is not "muggle-born". 
Can't be. Both parents are wizards. Equally, they are far from being 
purebloods. So that leaves "halfblood". (I know the term doesn't 
really fit, but "impure-blood" sounds like someone has tried to 
poison them.)

I think what complicates the matter is that there are really two 
different viewpoints in the WW on the matter. There is the 
Malfoy/Black viewpoint which is the whole oppressive, keep the 
bloodline pure and the more reasonable Weasley/Dumbledore view. 


Then of course there are squibs, where do they fit in? I mean the son 
of a squib (from a pureblooded family, of course) and a muggle. Would 
he be muggle-born or a halfblood? :)

Tilly