"Mudbloods" vs. halfbloods

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 99342

Alina signed off with:
Alina, who, for all her hatred for Voldemort, derives pleasure from
the image of Malfoy serving the whims of a "mudblood."


Carol:
It took me a moment to understand your sign off here. I hope you'll
forgive me for clearing up your apparent confusion by repeating an
important distinction. Tom is a half-blood (Muggle father, witch
mother), not a "mudblood" (two Muggle parents). He may taunt Harry,
but he clearly respects him as a worthy rival, a fellow half-blood (in
Harry's case, two Muggle grandparents and two magical grandparents).
"Mudbloods," in contrast, are worthy in Tom's view only of being
victims of the basilisk.

So Lucius Malfoy is "serving the whims" of a half-blood, not a
"mudblood"--and what's more, Lucius knows it, and so do all the DEs
who were present at the graveyard scene. Even Bellatrix has been told
(by Harry in the MoM), but she appears to be in denial.

Carol, who wonders how many DEs secretly hold LV in contempt for
having a Muggle father and resent him for tricking their pureblood
selves into serving him