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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 98116

> Susan:
> 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?
> 
> My theory:
> If you assume that mudblood comes from the idea of the blood being
muddied or dirty, then the assumption must also follow that there is
no point where the mudblooded becomes pureblooded.  If you think back
to your science class and the atom cutting example, no matter how many
times you half an object, it still exists, though in increasingly
negligible amounts.  For a more tangible example, assuming that Harry
and his descendants only marry purebloods, there may be a point where
the WW consider his line a pureblood line, but regardless, there is
still a tangible point where his line was not pureblooded, thereby
making his blood dirty by the standards of the Malfoys of the world.
> 
> ~Ali

Carol;
To answer Susan's question first--yes, Harry is technically more
pureblooded than Lily. He's a Halfblood (two Muggle grandparents, two
wizard grandparents); she's a "Mudblood" (Muggleborn). The marriage of
*either* a Muggle *or* a Muggleborn to a Pureblood results in a
Halfblood (like Seamus Finnegan on the one hand or Harry on the
other), and no one addresses Halfbloods as "Mudbloods"; the stigma
seems to be confined to the first generation. (It's rather like a
"bastard-born" (illegitimate) child in the nineteenth century or
earlier. It that child married respectably, the stigma of illegitimacy
was not passed on to his or her children.)

If Harry (or Seamus) marries a Pureblood, his children will be "3/4
bloods"--a term JKR doesn't use. In the next generation, if these
children marry Purebloods, they'll only be 1/8 Muggle, 7/8
Witch/Wizard--to all intents and purposes Fullbloods, though JKR
doesn't use that term, either. I don't know, but I imagine that four
generations in which both parents were magical would be sufficient to
make a person a "Pureblood" in the eyes of all but the most snobbish
witches and wizards. Even those who could trace their Pureblood line
back to 382 B.C. probably had Muggle blood from a female line that was
not traced back. As I imagine it, the very first witches and wizards
(who would have been shamans and priestesses and the like) were
Muggle-born and had no choice but to marry Muggles, but the concept of
"Muggle"--and the stigma--didn't exist yet, probably not until
medieval times.

Probably both the Malfoys and the Blacks have Muggle blood somewhere.
Those names just don't show up on the charts.

Carol