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

[jakedjensen]

No: HPFGUIDX 106504

> Tilly adds:
> Similarly the child of two muggle-born wizards is not "muggle-
born". 
> Can't be. Both parents are wizards.

Jake replies:

First, what a fun discussion. Second, a child of two muggle-born 
wizards can be muggle-born because, according to the purists, they 
have no old family blood. Remember, muggle-blood refers to one's 
absence of old family blood (which, since there is only one other 
category possible, means the person has muggle-blood). So two muggle-
bloods have nothing to give but muggle-blood. Hence the reason that 
Harry is a half-blood. Lily is magical, but has no old family blood 
to give. What makes one a muggle blood isn't that their parents 
aren't magical, it's that they lack old family blood.

Tilly adds: 
> 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. 
> 

Jake replies:
I don't think there is a Weasley/DD view on this issue, except to say 
that they don't think blood matters at all. Hagrid says all this 
blood talk is "nonsense" (CoS).

Tilly adds:
> 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? :)
> 

Jake replies:
Squibs are the exception that, I think, proves the rule. See, squibs 
don't have magical blood, but they can still be connected to the 
bloodline. So squibs can still be pure-blood. The aristocracy can't 
have it any other way, because what if one of their own becomes a 
squib (by the way, I always thought a great t-shirt slogan would 
be "Squib Happens")? So, if a squib and a muggle-born had a child, 
the child would be half-blood (squibs relation to the bloodline). 

Just my thoughts,

Jake
> Tilly