TEH Half-Blood Prince (WAS: Re: The [Real] Importance of being Draco Malfoy)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 114397

Elanor Pam wrote:
> Well... there are two people I can remember from the top of my head
that are half-blood - Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas. <snip> Dean
Thomas has no idea he is a half-blood as far as we know.
> And the official information we received from JKR (in her site) is
pretty limited. And she herself said she wanted to add Dean's bg story
in CS (or at least I'm under the impression she said that...), and
that there was a storyline she had moved from CS to HBP. Since she
added no information on Dean's father's background, maybe she was
saving that for the next book.
><snip>

Carol responds:
Dean Thomas is presented as a Muggleborn in the books. The plot line
about his being a half-blood was rejected. Surely the books have
greater value as canon than material was edited out of the books. (Ron
Weasley's Slytherin cousin and Hermione's little sister fall into the
same category.) Unless the currently *unofficial* information on
Dean's real father finds its way back into the books at some later
point (as it very well could), I think we need to consider him a
Muggleborn.

Carol