Explain This Passage

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 180800

RL:
> Two questions to Susan:
>
> 1. Do you have specific textural support for the statement "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." Is there something in the novel that talks of
> grandparents in the definition, or are you quoting JKR's public
> commentary?

Some time when I was not posting to this list the definition of canon
changed. My position is that if JKR says it (in an interview or
wherever) is that it's canon. I am in the minority. I am quoting
JKR's comments not published in Books 1 - 7.

But, I will suggest that the comment by Tom Riddle about them "both
being half bloods" is a statement that supports JKR's canon comments
outside the book.

RL:
> or
>
> 2. Is your support of this claim Tom Riddle's very statement, as
> quoted. The Riddle statement is interesting, in that he is seeing
> "strange likenesses" between himself and Harry that are not
> exactly incidental to his own actions: Both orphans, because Riddle
> himself killed Harry's parents. Both raised by Muggles, because
> Riddle killed Harry's magical parents. (It would be like taking
> someone, forcibly commit plastic surgery on him so he looks like
> you, and then commenting on the "strange likeness" between the two
> of you. Strange.) So the only specific likeness mentioned by Riddle
> that he himself did not cause is the very issue under contention:
> whether Harry is, like Voldemort, a half-blood, even though
> Voldemort had a muggle parent and Harry didn't.
>
> Now, it may be the case that (one can argue) the Riddle in the
> diary didn't know these strange likenesses were caused by him
> because they were done by his later self (though he seems to
> know things that he hadn't learned in his first 16 years--how could
> he know, for example, that Harry WAS an orphan without knowing WHY
> Harry was an orphan?). And the CoS passage certainly makes the
> point, stressed later in the books, that Voldemort himself marked
> Harry as the one like him, capable of defeating him.


I think Ginny told him a lot about Harry. That's implied in CoS. He
would have been eager to hear more about Harry when he finds out that
Harry is responsible for defeating his future self (LV).

I think oppressor/dictator philosophy is often contradictory in our
universe, and I think that this is mirrored in the HP universe. They
lie. They lie big time. And of course they often talk about being
pure blood or Aryan when some of their leaders are nothing of the
sort. Their only real ideology is that of power over and domination,
as opposed to love and compassion.

Susan