Explain This Passage

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 180533

> Julie:
>
> This is how I understand it too. And isn't this how it pretty much 
worked in Nazi Germany when it came to identifying Jews--if you had a 
Jewish grandparent, i.e. you were of at least one-quarter Jewish 
descent, then you were a "Jew." (Please correct me if I'm wrong, and 
I may well be!) 

So in the WW you aren't pureblood if your blood is "tainted" by the  
presence of a Muggle or Muggleborn within two generations. So it 
seems to  me. Though I'm not sure JKR ever specified such, I did get 
the impression she was in fact alluding to Nazi Germany and Aryan 
supremacy with the whole Pureblood supremacy issue.
  
Julie

Tiffany:

That's the same way I think JKR was trying to convey Pureblood in the 
WW as well.  The example you mentioned also reminds me a lot of the 
way it was here in the USA with the Jim Crow laws, where if you were 
even a trace of black heritage then you were considered black instead 
of white, even if you had white parents.  I can't tell if JKR ever 
dirtectly alluded to Nazi Germany, but I did get the impression that 
was the example she incorporated into the canon.