Re: Wizzarding-muggles blood. I still don´t get it! Help!

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 125603


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pollynesbitt"
<pollynesbitt at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, This is a long question about how a muggle goes about becoming a 
> wizard.
>
> First question : are wizards-witches part of the human race? ...
> (and how long does a full blooded wizard live?)
> 
> Which brings me to my most important question: How does a full 
> blooded muggle ( like Hermy) become a witch?

bboyminn:

That's like asking if artistic, musical, or scientific genuises are
part of the human race. Those with extreme genius are indeed capable
of magical things when compared to us common muggles.

Obviously, I think being a wizard or a witch, is just a matter of a
human-being being blessed with magical genius. It is somewhat genetic
since the smart people frequently come from smart families, musically
talented people frequently come from musical families. 

Magic is a little more genetic that normal talent though. It's clear
from the books that magical people /most often/ come from magical
families, but just like genius (just like muggle borns) sometimes it
crops up in unlikely places.


> pollynesbitt continues:
>
> ... the way I see it, She  comes to Hogwarts as a muggle, but will 
> leave as a witch.

bboyminn:

Hermione entered the school as a magical being, and is now in the
process of becoming a /trained/ magical being; which we call a witch.


> pollynesbitt continues:
>
> Did she have a late great wizard grandfather or what?
>

bboyminn:

While there is nothing to support it, I have always suspected that a
lot of muggle-borns actually have some latent magical blood hiding in
some distant part of their family tree. On the other hand, sometimes
genius, or in this case magic, randomly crop up in unlikely places.


> pollynesbitt continues:
>
> And if she is a wizard from birth, why isn´t she pure blood? 
> ...edited...
> Would a muggle born be a "dirty-blood" and someone like Harry be a 
> mud blood? Or is Harry considered a pure blood, even though his 
> mother´s parents were ( I think) muggles? Or would he be a 
> half-blood  and thus could not be called a mud-blood?????HELP!!!!!
> 
> Which brings me to my next question...just kidding.
>
> pollynesbitt

bboyminn:

The nature of someone's blood is not an absolute fact, it's a matter
of prejudice and opinion. In addition, references to /blood/ are more
often about heritage and ancestry than the actual blood of the person
under discussion.

To Malfoy's prejudice, Hermione is a mudblood by virtue of her muggle
parents. Draco is not quite as hard on Harry because Harry's parents
were a witch and wizard, but Lily's parents were muggles. So,
absolutely, in Draco's mind, Harry is not a pureblood.

I coined the term 'fullblood' to describe Harry. It's not actually
used in the books, but it's a fair term. Harry has fullblooded magical
parents, both a witch and a wizard, that makes Harry a fullblooded
magical being, but he's not a /pureblood/ because he can't trace his
lineage back though several generations of fullblooded ancestors.

The main point is that fullbood, mudblood, halfblood, etc... are not
absolutes, they mean different things to different people. Again, they
are based on prejudice and opinion. In addition, in general
conversation, one person could refer to another as a fullbood in one
conversation, and a halfblood in another depending on the context of
the conversations.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn