DH Questions: Lovegoods/Ron's absence/blood status

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 188318

---  "spa76" <sandie.hans at ...> wrote:
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> 1. Are the elder Lovegoods and Weasleys friends? ...
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> 2. How long was Ron at Shell Cottage/away from Harry & Hermione? ...
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> 3. The last question is about the next gen... In a canon-based fanfic I read, the author referred to the three Potter kids as purebloods and the two Weasley kids as half bloods. Obviously Ron and Hermione's kids are half bloods, but is that correct about the Potter kids (HB Harry + PB Ginny = PB kids?). I kinda thought once a PB wizard married anything other than a PB, their kids were no longer PB.
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> Thanks!
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bboyminn:

Other are doing well on the first two questions, so I'll 
tackle the third.

'Blood' is in the eye of the beholder. To some, if you don't
have generation of pureblood, then you are not pureblood.
To others, your grandfather and grandmother at least need to
be a wizard and witch. 

So, if we look are Ron and Hermione, we have an indisputable
pureblood, and a first generation Muggle-born.

If we look at Harry and Ginny, again we have an indisputable
purebood, and a second generation wizard. Harry is a wizard,
his mother was a muggle-born. 

So Ron's kids are second generation like Harry, and Harry's 
kids are third generation magical being, so one could draw a 
distinction between them. Though I'm afraid it would be a
distinction that very very few would consider. 

We don't say Harry is a muggle-born, but we don't say he is
a pureblood either. He is simply a wizard; a second 
generation magical being.

So, we really shouldn't consider Ron's kid as Half-bloods. 
They, like Harry, are simply second generation magical beings.
Not purebloods, but not half-bloods either.  

Now Dean Thomas is a true half-blood. His father a wizard,
and his mother a pure muggle. 

I also don't quite think we can think of this as standard
genetics. It is not like you can say, well I'm 1/16th
Cherokee. Once you have a witch and a wizard, from then on
the kids are not mixed blood. They are pure magical beings,
but pure magical being who can not trace their magic back
through countless generations. In otherwords, they are pure
magical being, they are just not pureblood magical beings. 

It is a fine and subtle distinction, and one that will vary
between people in the wizard world. So, this author who 
referred to them as pureblood and half-blood, is either 
mistaken, or he is intensionally writing from the perspective
of someone with a degree of prejudice. 

Again, what you would call these kids, how you would define
them, is an extremely variable point, that will vary from
person to person. 

Steve/bboyminn