Krum taking a 'mudblood' to Yuleball

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 152276

-- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixmum" <phoenixtears at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff Bannister wrote:
> > Reading between the lines, I get a feeling that Viktor
> > Krum was not a Karkaroff fan. A follow-up question
> > would be, that although IK is or was a Death Eater,
> > is there a pureblood restriction on entry to the school?
> >
> Phoenix answers:
>
> In GOF (US ed.), p. 165 Malfory states "...Father actually considered
> sending me to Durmstrang...He knows the Headmaster, you see. Well you
> know his opinion of Dumbledore- the man's such a Mudblood lover- and
> Durmstang doesn't admit that sort of riff-raff."
>
> Of course, just because it's school policy, it doesn't mean all the
> students believe in it.  Look at the Hogwarts students who think only
> purebloods should be permitted. I thought one of the points of Krum
> taking Hermione to the ball, and their continued correspondence, was
> to set up Krum's return as an ally in Harry's quest against Voldemort
> in the last book. The fact that Krum would take a mudblood to the
> ball, and apparently genuinely cares for her despite knowing she is
> muggle-born, sets him up as a good guy by the end of GOF.
>
>  Krum is from Bulgaria, LV hid in Romania for a while; perhaps there's
> a horcrux, or a clue to one in that part of the world, and Harry will
> need to travel there. Hermione's friendship with Krum would give them
> a contact in that part of the world.

Geoff:
Thanks for the quote.

I knew that Draco had made a comment about Durmstrang.but unusually
for me, I couldn't find that reference yesterday.

A moot point is that Draco only says that Karkaroff wouldn't admit a
mudblood; that wouldn't discount a half-blood. I wonder what the
proportion  of purebloods to half-bloods in the Wizarding World is?

After all, we have a comment from canon:

'"It's a disgusting thing to call someone," said Ron, wiping his sweaty
brow with a shaking hand. "Dirty blood, see. Common blood. It's mad.
Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't married
Muggles we'd've died out."'
(COS "Mudbloods and Murmurs" p.89 UK eidtion)

Could Durmstrang be viable on a totally pureblood intake?