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

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 98151

Carol wrote:
> 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

I wonder whether purebloodedness isn't the preserve of the snobbish, though.

Let's suppose that someone like Hermione decides that she _really_ wants her
descendents to be considered purebloods, no matter how long it takes.

So she gets a blank tapestry.

Now she's got to find someone to marry who's himself an attested pureblood.

But,  if someone with that status will marry "beneath himself", would he
still keep his own status or be burned off his own family tapestry?

And then in the second generation, it happens again, and again, and again,
for as many generations as it takes for the House of Grainger-Malfoy not to
be considered to be halfblood parvenus and upstarts.

And I'm sure that even _then_, there will still be the genealogically minded
who would say "Muggles stand at the head of the House of Grainger".

Probably much better to let the whole lot of them die out!

Cheers

Ffred

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