Lily's Family

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 107841

dcgmck:
>>[snip] why do I have
no recollection of anyone ever calling Harry a 'mudblood'? Malfoy
exhibits no reticence in using the term on everyone else of evident
Muggle heritage, so why stop with Harry, whom he so clearly loathes
and envies? <<

HunterGreen:
Because Harry is a HALF-blood, not a muggle-born. He has a pure-blood 
father, so he's not quite a 'mudblood' (as far I as understand it, 
the term is for muggle-born witches/wizards, and I suppose it could 
be extended to the child of two muggleborns or a muggleborn and a 
muggle, etc). He's no more a 'mudblood' than Tonks is. 'Half-blood' 
can be considered an insult as well, as Bellatrix uses it that way in 
the DoM after Harry calls Voldemort by his name.
Voldemort, by the way, would probably see that disctinction as well, 
since HE is a half-blood, and refers to Harry's mother (in CoS) as 
a 'mudblood'. 

According to Ron in CoS, "Mudblood's a really foul name for someone 
who is Muggle-born - you know, non-magic parents.". But, I suppose, 
if Lily were the child of two muggleborns they might see fit to call 
her a mudblood, I just don't know if SHE would just accept that.