Half-blood vs Pure-blood

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 171824

Dantzel:
"Besides, this line of thinking has happened in RL, ie Nazis requiring their
citizens to be registered if their genealogy contained a single Jew."



JKR said in an interview once that she worked out the 'rules' in the WW for
being considered a half-blood vs. pureblood--that is, how far back the Muggle
ancestor had to be before one was accepted in 'polite' Wizardling society to be
considered a pureblood--and later happened to see a Holocaust exhibit in London
which showed a Nazi chart showing how much Jewish ancestry one had to be
considered 'Juden', 'Mischling', or 'Aryansh.'  (I may not have the spellings
quite right.) She said that her blood ran cold to see that if you laid one on
top of another they would be almost the same.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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