I agree with u about the squib parents issue.
and mybe a child that is the three in the line of one half blood witch/wizard is still called half blood. the the next (4) will be pureblood
or it untill no one remember your half bloodness ancestors.
I thought of it because it was like that with jews and hitler (up till 3 lineage still called a jew no metter his religion but his blood)
and harry potter his known for his similareties to the WWII
Originally posted by pixie1
wot about 2 squibs both from pure blooded familys that have a magical child is the child still a pure blood?
Definitely, because its ancestry would be pure ie it would be a member of the pureblood family. Mudbloods are no different from Muggles EXCEPT for being more powerful. They are MORE a threat to the pure bloods because as well as being unrelated and untrustworthy, they could take them on and overthrow them.
The term pure blood is commonly used to denote pure ancestry. The issue is not magic or skill, it is race. Lily is a mudblood - a human. She is not one of the extended family (race) of purebloods. Therefore Harry is as much an alien as Seamus. Magical powers don't improve her, they just make her more of a threat. As the pureblooded wizards are all one family it makes sense for them to feel threatened by a wizard who is NOT related to them. That Lily happened to be born with magic powers that are very much like theirs doesn't make her one of their family.
Harry is a half blood. Sirius stated in the OOTP book that almost all pure bloods are related, that's why they're PURE. Duh. Harry's not blood related with Sirius. He's a half blood obviously because his mum is like Hermoine (muggle parents, but Lily turned out to have magic like Hermoine)... Petunia didn't.. heh.
Who knows about the history of Harry's mum though. Maybe there's a secret behind, and we shall have to wait for the next book to find out.
on other note
we already know that wizards leave longer than muggles....
so half blood would leave how much ?
dd-150 (something like that)
Professor Marchbanks - at least 170-175 (from the fact that she examine dd in his OWLs )
they were pure blood? (i guess that they were)
if they leave longer so maybe dd love one was a half blood and she died before him...
That does make since
I agree with whoever said that thing about wizards not really being entirely human. although they look it. Wizards are like a different line of the human race. Ok I believe that every one in the HP universe, muggles included, have some amount of magic in them (except for the dursleys) Thats how muggles can have wizard children. Lets go back even before merlin or maybe even to merlin's time. Lets say merlin was born to muggles but when he started showing his magical talents they were scared and cast him out of their village or house or whatever and he found a female with the same talents and lets say they started the wizard lines. voila you have the wizard race. maybe the early wizards were shunned so much and persecuted so much that they formed their own society (The wizarding world) and forgot about their own ancestory so they were very wary of wizards who didn't have wizard parents. to them muggles aren't true wizards they are just muggles with magic powers, those who have a line of wizard ancestors are pure bloods those who don't have a line of wizard ancestors aren't pure bloods and thier children are half bloods
it all has to do with ancestory, when you are born you get part of each parent and part of each blood line so you are half of your father and half of your mother harry is halfblood because half of his ancestors are not wizards and half are. his mother is a mudblood with no wizarding ancestors at all. pure bloods have wizarding ancestors on both sides
no not all wizards are connected but most are because of who they marry. remember there are alot of wizard families out there and they could marry alot of people. I mean look at the weasly family. They have 7 kids and lets say they all married into different wizard families They'd have a pretty big line there
Originally posted by angiethedragon
That does make since
I agree with whoever said that thing about wizards not really being entirely human. although they look it. Wizards are like a different line of the human race. Ok I believe that every one in the HP universe, muggles included, have some amount of magic in them (except for the dursleys) Thats how muggles can have wizard children. Lets go back even before merlin or maybe even to merlin's time. Lets say merlin was born to muggles but when he started showing his magical talents they were scared and cast him out of their village or house or whatever and he found a female with the same talents and lets say they started the wizard lines. voila you have the wizard race. maybe the early wizards were shunned so much and persecuted so much that they formed their own society (The wizarding world) and forgot about their own ancestory so they were very wary of wizards who didn't have wizard parents. to them muggles aren't true wizards they are just muggles with magic powers, those who have a line of wizard ancestors are pure bloods those who don't have a line of wizard ancestors aren't pure bloods and thier children are half bloods
Interesting point, Muggles may well have a spark of innate magic that allows them to interact with magic. But the pureblood wizards are not human, even though they are compatible with us. They are not giants, even though they are compatible with them. I get the impression that wizards were a different race to the human race since Man first evolved. They would have ruled at first, like the ancient Egyptian wizards, then simply coexisted as in the Middle Ages, then gone into hiding.
Originally posted by angiethedragon
. Lets go back even before merlin or maybe even to merlin's time. Lets say merlin was born to muggles but when he started showing his magical talents they were scared and cast him out of their village or house or whatever and he found a female with the same talents and lets say they started the wizard lines. voila you have the wizard race. maybe the early wizards were shunned so much and persecuted so much that they formed their own society (The wizarding world) and forgot about their own ancestory so they were very wary of wizards who didn't have wizard parents. to them muggles aren't true wizards they are just muggles with magic powers, those who have a line of wizard ancestors are pure bloods those who don't have a line of wizard ancestors aren't pure bloods and thier children are half bloods