What makes pureblood pure?? Beauty and Blood

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 126680


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 3/26/2005 11:16:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
> kking0731 at g... writes:

> Snow:
> 
> Yes, but Tom Riddle alias  Lord Voldemort has one magical parent and 
> one "totally" non magical  parent...what do you call him?
> 
> I call him  wanting!



> Chancie:
>  
> ... I  think the WW kinda looks at pure/half/mud... blood in pretty 
> basic terms. You are pure blood if your family can be traced back 
> several  generations being all magical. ... Mudblood ... is coming 
> out of a purely Muggle line of ancestors ....  And it seems to me 
> that Half blood is anything in  between.  
> ...
>  
> ...edited... 
>  
> Any thoughts?  

bboyminn:

This is my take on the Nature of Blood-

"Beauty and Blood are in the eye of the beholder."


Half-blood, mud-blood, pure-blood are not absolute; they mean
different things to different people.

While Dumbledore refers to Harry as a Halfblood, that is in the
context of making a point, I don't really think Dumbledore views Harry
as a mixed or half-blood. Harry's parents were both magical beings,
that makes Harry's blood fully magical, or what I call a fullblood.

Seamus who is a mix of a full muggle and a full magical being, could
accurately be called a half-blood. 

So, to a pureblood fanatic, only the purest of pure blood is good
enough. All other non-pure blood is soiled, and therefore mudblood.

To Joe average-wizard-on-the-street, you are either muggle,
muggle-born, mixed, or magic; it's probably not a matter of blood at all.

Since /mudblood/ implies soiled, dirty, contaminated blood, and
demeans and insults the person at which it is directed, it is a term
that would only be used as by the most fanatic Purebloods.

Again, back to Joe Average in the street, he probably doesn't care
about the mix of your blood other than general curiousity about your
background. For the most part, you are either witch/wizard or you are
not, and that's all that matters. 

I think few average wizards would refer to Harry as a halfblood
because both his parents were magical. Though they would still have a
general curiousity about his heritage. Any reference to Harry as a
halfblood by the average wizard would simply be to establish the
context of his heritage, and would carry no malice, ill-will, or
intent to insult.

This would occur in the same context that I usually know whether my
friends are of Dutch, German, Russian, or Scandinavian heritage. It's
a point of acquaintance and general discussion, but of little or no
real consequence.

So, in general, there is no hard and fast definition of Blood, it's a
matter of personal opinion.

Steve/bboyminn