Can a M$^blood even become a pureblood? (From Assumption)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 97815

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <teilani2002 at y...> wrote:
> Mandy Croyance:
> ...edited...
> 
> My question:
> Is it possible for a m$&blood family eventually to become a pureblood 
> family?  Ok, James is from a pureblooded family.  Lily comes from a 
> muggle family, but she's obviously a wizard.  They have Harry.  Isn't 
> he (Harry) technically more "pure" than Lily (bloodwise)?  So if he 
> married a pureblood, their child would be even more "pure" wouldn't 
> he/she? And if that child grows up and marries a pureblood...  See 
> where I'm going?  Where does it end?
> 
> Susan

bboy_mn:

Tricky question.

Part of the problem is that referring to Full Blood and Half Blood
seems easy and obvious, but can only be applied to ancestry, and not
to the magical individual. Harry is of Full Blood parentage; both his
parent are magical. Seamus is of Half Blood parentage; his father a
muggle, his mother a witch. He has only one magical parent. Yet, Harry
and Seamus are both fully magical people.

On the other hand, I don't think one is half wizard in the same way
one is half Norwegian. Magic can not so easily be measured in blood or
ancestry. You are either magic or you are not, and if you are magic
then you are full magic. Restated, there is no such thing as being
half a wizard or half a witch. So, in this sense, Hermione, who has
full muggle parentage, is a full-blooded witch because she is a fully
magical person. Do you see what I am getting at here?

Now to Pureblood, the problem with locking down a working definition
of Pureblood is that it is not an absolute fact; it is a matter of
opinion. In one person's eyes, if you have 10 generations of pure
blood, then for all practical purposes, you are a Pureblood. To
someone else, if there is the slighted drop, no matter how distant, of
muggle blood in your direct lineage, then you are contaminated. To
other's still, they may consider Harry's children to be pure blood
(assuming he marries a witch) because he is the product of two magical
people, who married someone who is the product of two magical people,
and that would make his children magically pure. ... or any one of a
dozen other ways viewing the situation.

Now to make the matter more complicated we have Squibs. Squibs have
magically pure blood, but no magic. So, are they pure or not? What if
10 parallel generations of pure blood Squibs married until the final
generation produced Hermione. After 10 generations, Hermione's parents
may have lost track of the fact that they were both decended through 9
prior generations of pureblood people for whom the magical essense had
been lost. Now with Hermione's birth, that magical essense reappears;
so, is Hermione a Pureblood or not?

You understand, of course, I propose this purely for purposes of
illustration. I don't really believe this is Hermione's history, just
trying to point out how uncertain and ill-defined this whole
'pureblood' thing is.

So, purity of blood is in the eye of the beholder.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn