[HPforGrownups] Half Blood, Pure Blood--Help Pease

[BrwNeil at aol.com]

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In a message dated 5/31/2005 1:46:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
sro35 at webtv.net writes:

>I do  not understand what makes a person half blood. In OOTP, DD 
>tells Harry  that Voldemort chose him, the half blood, and not 
>Neville, the pure  blood. What makes Harry a half blood?

>Both of Harry's parents were  magical, doesn't that make him pure 
>blood? Does Lily coming from a  Muggle family change it? If so, 
>why?

>Thanks in advance for  your help....Stan (anxiously waiting for 
>July  16)




The term half blood is very misleading because by JKR's definition it has  
nothing to do with half blood.  It does not mean one parent magical and the  
other muggle.  It means having a muggle anywhere in you ancestry.
 
A muggle born or mudblood comes from a family which before now has not had  a 
witch or a wizard in their ancestry.
 
A prue blood comes from a family that has never married outside of the  
wizard world.  Their blood is 'pure' wizard back as far as history can  trace.
 
Anyone else is a half blood.  Example:  Harry's dad might have  been a pure 
blood, but once he married Lily, a muggle born, all decendants will  be 
consider half blood forever more
 
 
Neil



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