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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 97856


> 
> Cindy now:
> 
> I've always equated the mudblood debate with the slavery debate in 
the early
> US.  When slavery was legal, there were a number of rules to 
determine who
> was Black and who wasn't.  The oldest was the Descent Rule, which 
said any
> offspring from a mixed union were to be considered Black, and 
therefore a
> slave.  That was later clarified with the One Drop Rule, which 
said if your
> blood was 1/32 Black, you were to be considered Black.  That meant 
that only
> one of your great-great grandparents had to be Black for you to be
> considered Black, even if you appeared very Caucasian.  (Your 
kids, though,
> would be White, because they had less than 1/32 of Black blood.)
> 

Potioncat:
Yes, that's my closest association as well.  But it seems to me that 
the WW isn't as strict in their interpretation.  They seem pretty 
accepting of a child of a witch and wizard, without looking too 
closely beyond that.  Although how close someone would look might 
depend on what the association was to be and who was doing 
the "judging." Given the longevity in the WW, you'd think there 
would be an old Auntie or a great-great who would remember that so-
and-so's ancester was a Muggle.
Potioncat