Thank you and another question - Pureblood vs. Halfblood

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Alanna <lilandriss at ...> wrote:
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> Hey all! Thanks for the responses to my questions on wolfsbane and portkeys.  They were very helpful.  I have another question now.  I'm having trouble understanding Pureblood vs Halfblood.  I get the Halfblood when one parent is magical and the other isn't as in the case of Voldie and Snape, but why is Harry considered a Halfblood? Both his parents are magical despite his mother being muggleborn.  If he's considered Halfblood because of that, then what would you call the child of two muggleborns?
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> Also, I'm still looking for an answer on the question of fic searches. 
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> Thanks again!
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> Alanna :)      
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THink it's a bit like Old Money and Nouveau Riche.
"The fact you have maybe more money then us, doesn't mean you belong to us the eleite from generation to generation."

PureBloods pretend to be Wizards for generations and generations, being for instance very proud to decent from Salazar Slytherin ignore that they are a bunge of retarded trash.... the Gaunts for instance.
So every Wizard that obvious has some Muggle among his ancesters "isn't really a Wizard" but a sort of Half Wizard ergo HalfBlood.
Someone whose parents both are Muggle cannot be a Wizard at all, in the most someone who stole some powers or tricks from the "real" Wizards and their existence is mudding the pool ergo Mudblood
It's a mix of old English elitism with the house of Slyterin compaired with Eton and the post colonial vieuw about blacks and whites in America.
Think we may be glad JKR is an English writer and not a South African writer, because then she might have introduced as many grades od pureness for Wizard as the apartheid regime once did to segregate... think there were about 16 stages of being coloured.