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saraband16 |
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:56 pm |
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I looked for a subject similar to this but could not find any so I apologize if this has been addressed before. My question is how do you determine one's blood status with all the intermarriage and Muggleborn witches/wizards? For instance, if Severus, a half-blood, had a child with Hermione, a Muggleborn, what would the blood status of their child be?
Is Harry considered a Half-blood because his mother was Muggleborn? |
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Overhill |
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 7:58 pm |
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Harry would be considered half-blood, but it didn't seem to matter to Draco Malfoy when they met on the train, nor did Snape's half-blood status seem to matter his parents.
I think it goes Muggle-born (or mudblood), half-blood and pure-blood. Anything between half-blood and full blood is "hey, did you catch the Quidditch game last week?" Other than during the wars and a few pure-bloods and snobs like Umbridge, 99% of wizards could not care less. I doubt that even the Basilisk was all that concerned about it and I noticed that (with the exception of Draco) ALL the students were worried about who was going to be the next one petrified.
For most wizards, sitting next to a pure-blood woud be the same as a Muggle sitting next to someone whose family came from the Maryflower: That's nice; please pass the salt, and hey, how about those Tutshills/Raiders last week? |
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celisnebula |
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 4:04 am |
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Overhill has pretty much got it.
Muggleborns would be low man on the totem in terms of prejudice, followed by half bloods and the pureblood. Semantics could suggest that a muggle born witch and a pureblood could create a half blood - but I think that once it's determined that a person has magic, then their offspring are considered to be at least half bloods - only the purebloods could reasonably say (or lie and say) they haven't muggle blood. |
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