Neville in the end / Pureblood Question

[Meredith]

No: HPFGUIDX 103017

Tina wrote:
> 
> This may have been addressed, and I just missed it, but I do have 
a 
> question:
> 
> A lot has been established about Harry being a half blood. But a 
> half blood is someone that is born of a wizard and a muggle. That 
> said, wouldn't Harry in fact be pureblood since both parents 
> (regardless of their parentage) were a witch and a wizard?
> 


Tina, I've seen this question addressed on a number of sites. The 
prevailing theory is that Harry is a half-blood, and would be 
considered so by the wizarding world (which seems slightly racist, 
no?). I believe JKR has said Harry is a half-blood, but I don't have 
an interview link for that info. It's similar to the law in the old 
American South, where a "Drop" of african-american blood made you 
black, no matter what you looked like. Therefore, mulattoes, 
quadroons, and octoroons were all pushed towards the bottom of 
society. A wealthy white slave owner who was the father of one of 
his slave's children would not acknowledge that child, and the child 
would be raised a slave, although he/she was half white. 

Obviously, HP differs in that the "racial qualifications" aren't as 
completely strict, and there seem to be rather high positions 
m*dbloods or halfbloods can attain. But, at least for many 
generations, Harry's descendents will probably be considered half-
blood. (I wonder, if, perhaps you went back to the founding of 
Hogwarts - were the Weasleys or any other other fmily half-blood or 
m*dblood at that point? Something so long ago that people have 
forgotten?)


~Luckie