[HPforGrownups] Can a M$^blood ever become a pureblood?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 97925

bboy_mn wrote:
>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
>
>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.

Quite so. It seem to me that there are only certain families who care.

There are just a few families for whom this matters. They have a tapestry on
the wall going back to when? A very long way, certainly. Assuming that
wizards live twice as long as Muggles (though I know that you've theorised
that it could be up to three times as long) then a wizarding generation
would be 60 years. So by the time you get back to 15 generations, you're
back 900 years in time.

In our world, I think I'm right that there are aristocratic families that
can trace their lineage back considerably more than 15 generations (eg the
Royals, for one).

So maybe the wizarding aristocrats can trace their lines back anything up to
2000 years.

But for the majority, they don't have a tapestry. Maybe there's a Muggle or
two, generations back before the Statute of Secrecy, or even more recently,
but it's no big deal. Unless there's a Muggle parent there, then no one
really worries about it.

Likewise, there are, it would seem, very few wizards with two Muggle
parents. If a quarter of the Hogwarts intake have at least one, then only a
fraction (perhaps a third) of those have two Muggle parents, a very small
number compared to the size of the population as a whole.

Which in turn means that a very small part of the WW population (the
pureblood aristocracy) are concerned about a very small part of the WW
population (the Muggle-born). Possibly because both groups come together at
Hogwarts at an impressionable time in their lives?

Cheers

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