PRINCE, BLOOD,HALF

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No: HPFGUIDX 107972

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shirley" <shirley2allie at h...> wrote:
> 
> Shirley:  But, actually, the thing I need to ask about is your 
> assertion that Lupin is half-blood.  Yes, we know he's werewolf 
> because he was bitten as a young boy (he says this in the Shrieking 
> Shack, I believe, in PoA, but I don't have that book here with me).  
> But I don't recall reading anywhere whether his parentage is 
> pureblood or mixed-blood.  Personally, I always assumed that he was 
> probably pureblood, as his parents appear to have accepted that he 
> was a werewolf (after being bitten), whereas I would expect muggle 
> parents to struggle with that concept.
> 
> Shirley, apologizing for being picky, but wondering if she missed 
> something along the way....


These days it's not enough to be familiar with the books -  you also
need to keep track of what JKR reveals in her interviews and web-chats.
This one is from March this year:

Q. Is Remus a pureblood?
A. Half blood.

Now that's interesting. I can't find many examples of JKR using the 
term 'half blood' yet it turns up in regard to Remus and book 6.
"Prince' though... perhaps that's what his parents called him when 
he was in lupine mode:
"Here Prince! Good boy! Walkies!"

Kneasy