Half-Blood???????

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 103597

Madeyemoody72 wrote:
>>> Why is Harry considered a half-blood. If anything he should be a
three-quarter blood shoudn't he?<<<

Melissa replied:
>>That's my opinion on the matter. He has more wizarding blood than 
Voldemort but not as much as Neville. Although I suspect for JKR's 
purposes calling him a half blood is well enough.<<

HunterGreen:
Maybe this is just one of those things that's best not to think 
about. Before OotP, I didn't think of Harry as a half-blood, because 
I always figured that half-blood met half muggle and half wizard. I 
suppose the WW doesn't have any distinctions between muggle-born and 
actual muggle, which makes me wonder what a child of two muggle-borns 
would be considered. Would that be a half-blood too? Could that child 
be considered a 'mudblood'? (I'd guess not). What about a child of a 
muggle-born and a muggle? I guess there's only three terms: muggle-
born, half-blood, or pure-blood, which might be part of the reason 
the pure-bloods are so desparate to keep themselves that way, since 
there's no difference between Tom Riddle (who's half-muggle), and 
Harry (who simply has a muggle-born mother).