What Blood Status Have Harry's Parents? - Blood in the Eye

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 180207

---  "colebiancardi" <muellem at ...> wrote:
>
> >> "Michelle Brown" <shellyghost@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm just wandering, but are Harry's parents pure blood of
> > half blood? I think he's half blood, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> 
> colebiancardi:
> 
> James is a pure-blood wizard.  Lily was born of muggle 
> parents, so she was muggle-born.  Harry is half-blood.
>

bboyminn:

Ahhh, but this is were it gets tricky. What Harry is depends
on the individual, and what the individual's definitions are.

Harry is the result of two magical parents; which means he
is a fully (blood-wise) magical being.

But since he can't trace both side of his family back through
several generations of magical beings, 'Pure-Bloods' don't 
consider Harry one of them. They see him as a half-blood
even though that is not technically correct.

For Harry to be a true half-blood, he would have to be the
product of a muggle (NOT muggleborn) and a magical being; 
half-muggle, half-magical.

I would say Harry is a Full-Blood, but not a Pure-Blood.
Others would say he is a half-blood. Some might take 'full-
blood' and say that is the same as 'Pure-Blood', others will
not.

So, beauty and blood are in the eye of the beholder, each
defines it according to his own prejudices.

The one fact we do know is that Harry is the son of a 
muggle-born witch and a pure-blood wizard, and from that
you can assign your own definition. 

As I said, to me, that is full-blood. Though as others will
point out, the term 'full-blood' doesn't appear in the books.

Steve/bboyminn