mixed marriages

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 124540


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stbjohn2" <stbjohn2 at y...> 
wrote:
snip. 
> 
>  In CoS, Ron says, "most wizards are half bloods these days anyway. 
> If we hadn't married muggles, we'd've died out." While one of Ron's 
> functions is to give us insight into the opinions of ordinary 
> wizards, I wonder if Ron is somewhat overstating the case. Or is he 
> talking about some vague time in the past, when wizards had almost 
> died out and had to marry muggles; or more recently, say his 
> grandparent's generation, in the pre-rise-of-Voldy days (perhaps 
> that's what gave Tom Riddle his idea on how to ride the wave of 
> purebloodism to power).
> 
> It's true that we have very little information on marriage in the 
WW 
> in general, and are as clueless as Harry about the wizard or muggle 
> heritage of most of his classmates,  but as far as I know,  there 
are 
> only three instances of muggle/wizard unions in canon, and one of 
> those comes not from the books, but JKR's website.
> 
> The three mixed marriages that we know about are Tom Riddle's 
mother 
> (witch) to Tom Riddle Sr. (muggle); Seamus Finnegan's mother 
(witch) 
> and father (muggle), and Dean Thomas mother (muggle)  and father 
> (wizard) -- the last from JKR's website. >snip 

> Sandy

I think we also have to take into account that the pureblood 
aristocracy does not view muggleborn wizards and witches (ie Tonks' 
father or Hermione) as counting as pureblood.  Ron  may be including 
them when he says this. 

imamommy