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

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188321

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
> As Ron (I think) says, there are very few genuine Pure-Bloods with no Muggle ancestry whatever: "If we hadn't married Muggles, we would have died out." 
> OTOH, "Half-Bloods" whose parents are both magical can easily pass as Pure-Bloods and no one will care much (unless a Pure-blood who cares about such things rejects them as a marriage partner because their surname isn't in the wizarding genealogy).

Geoff:
Ron's full comment to which you correctly draw attention is:

'"It's a disgusting thing to call someone," said Ron, wiping his sweaty
brow with a shaking hand. "Dirty blood, see. Common blood. It's mad.
Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't married 
Muggles we'd've died out."'
(COS "Mudbloods and Murmurs" p.89 UK edition)