Petunia's Eyes/Snape, Snape, Snape

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 169935

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tandra" <tkjones9 at ...> wrote:
>
> Tandra:
> My only question is does that still make her a mudblood(man I hate
> that word)
> 
> Magpie:
> Err...so why not use the real term, Muggle-born?
> 
> TKJ:
> 
> Because my point is can she still be called by this slur if it turns
> out to be that there was magic in her fam a generation or two ago?
>

Anne Squires:

As I understand the definition of "mudblood,"  anyone with at least
one Muggle grandparent is "not pure;" thus, a "mudblood."  Therefore,
by this definition she could be called this slur even if she did have
magic in her family several generations back.

>From JKR's website:
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=58

Section: F.A.Q.
Why are some people in the wizarding world (e.g., Harry) called
'half-blood' even though both their parents were magical?

The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been
coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their
originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is
concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle.
Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his
mother's grandparents.

If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the
Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw
one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised
the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was
chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as
the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood,
according to their propaganda.