Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[sartoris22]

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Carol responds:
Just one minor point: Lily is not a Muggle but a Muggle-born, and even at age nine or ten Severus distinguishes between the two, holding the Muggle Petunia in contempt because she can't perform magic and won't be allowed to attend Hogwarts but liking, admiring, and even loving Lily, who is clearly a gifted little witch with whom he is proud and happy to share his superior knowledge of the WW. I doubt that a "blood traitor" mother who married a Muggle would have taught him to hate Muggle-borns or hold them in contempt. It appears to be only Muggles that he hates and resents, probably because of his Muggle father. (I've presented my views on this point in detail elsewhere and won't repeat them here.)


sartoris22:

Thank you for the clarification. It makes me reconsider the whole Muggle thing, which is really somewhat confusing. Voldemort hates Muggles but is half Muggle. In DH, he wants to round up all the Muggle born wixards and witches, but are those people really Muggles? If, as you say, Lily is not a Muggle because she has magical powers, then what does it really matter if a magical person has one or two non-magical parents? Why is Harry not a Mudblood but Hermione is? Apparently, Voldemort is okay with half bloods, but that doesn't really make sense to me. If a Mudblood has dirty blood, then why isn't a half blood equally reviled? Sirius says that his parents had "pureblood mania." Shouldn't anyone with Muggle blood be considered undesireable? And why would the Deatheaters follow a half blood like Voldemort? Even if Voldemort killed all the so called Mudbloods, as long as he allowed half bloods to live and breed, the wizard blood would continue to be tainted. For example, Ginny is a pureblood who marries and has children with Harry, who is a half blood. Would his kids blood be tainted, or because Harry is magical, would his kids be considered pure bloods?