It's All Relative (was:By the way....

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at y...> 
wrote:

> Talisman:
> Tonks isn't on the tapestry because her mother, Andromeda, was 
> blasted off for marrying a muggle.  Anyone descending from that 
> union would not be acknowledged, as they would necessarily be half-
> bloods.

Muggle-born.  I'm not quite sure why this bit of canonical confusion 
has spread like wildfire.  That makes Tonks a half-blood by the more 
rigorous (and coming from the perspective of people like Lucius 
Malfoy) criteria that also makes Harry a half-blood.

Andromeda most likely met Ted in Hogwarts, given the proximate dates 
and the general pattern in Rowling's world, where we have several 
examples of school couples marrying.  Now, Sluggy tells us that all 
the Blacks but Sirius were Slytherins, thus including Andromeda.  I 
wonder how she escaped the dominant climate of the House and time to 
marry a Muggle-born guy?

-Nora nitpicks out of habit, naturally