halfbloods? (WAS: RE: Tom Riddle's House)

[astratrf]

No: HPFGUIDX 93015

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Elihu Falk 
<falkelihu at y...> wrote:
> Bonny:
>  
> Nowhere, in any of the books, is it stated that Tom Riddle, a.k.a 
Lord Voldemort, was in Slytherin house. 
>  
> Elihu:
>  
> If I remember correctly, Hagrid says that he was, together with 
the statement that all dark wizards were Slytherins.
>  
> Bonny (cont.):
>  
> There are various things that make his membership of 
Slytherin house a little dubious. For starters, there is the obvious 
question of his being a half-blood.
>  
> Elihu:
>  
> The Sorting Hat wanted to put Harry in Slytherin, and he to is a 
half-blood.

Now me (Astra, who hopes she's doing this right!):
Is there, anywhere in the books, movies or interviews with JKR, a 
better way of defining magical parentage than just pureblood, 
half-blood or muggleborn?  Riddle's parents were  a witch and a 
muggle; Harry's were both wizard folk, though his mother was 
muggleborn.  I would think there would/should be a separate 
term to reflect this difference. Of course, to the elitist, anything
but 
pureblood is "second-class", but we're mostly reasonable folk 
here, yes?  
Maybe we could create our own terms where they would be 
helpful.  After all, most of us know what happened to an  
attempted post when someone mentions "Yahoomort"!
-Astra