Explain This Passage

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 180616

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rlevatter" <rlevatter at ...>
wrote:
>
snip
>
> "And note, Harry, that Voldemort, with only one Muggle parent,
> chose not to go after Neville, with two magical parents and a
> long lineage of magic, despite his professed belief that those
> are the only wizards of value. Instead he went after you, whom
> he saw as just like him, even though you have two magical parents
> like Neville while he had only one."
>
> My point has less to do with bloodline definitions and more
> with trying to understand the logic of what Dumbledore was
> trying to tell Harry, or what Voldemort's thinking was. When
> I rephrase it as I did above, is Voldemort's logic clear to
> you? In a strong sense, neither Harry nor Neville are like
> Voldemort in the circumstances of their birth.
>


Lord Voldemort saw Harry as "just like him" because Harry was NOT a
pure blood. The definition of half blood as defined by JKR is that if
you have ONE grandparent who is NOT a witch or wizard then you are a
half-blood. And, therefore, lesser.

It doesn't matter, in the Death Eater world (or to the Nazis) if it's
your grandmother who is a muggle (or Jewish) or if it's your mother
who is a Muggle (or Jewish)....if you don't have all four
grandparents who are witches or wizards (or Aryans) then you are a
half blood (or Jewish).

So Lord Voldemort DID see Harry as like him.....note the quote from
Tom Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets ..he's speaking to Harry:

"...There are strange likenesses between us, after all. Even you must
have noticed. Both half-bloods, orphans, raised by Muggles.."

Tom Riddle/LV knows that Lily Evans Potter was a witch, and that her
parents were Muggles. He knows that his father was not a wizard and
his mother was a witch. Yet he calls himself AND Harry half bloods,
because at least ONE of Harry's grandparents (actually two) were
Muggles.

Susan