This is the way I think it goes down.
Every single member of your family dating back to ancestors have to be magical in order for you to be considered a pure blood. Half-blood doesn't solely mean that one parent is magical and the other is not, it is just the universal expression for saying that a wizard or witch has a family member somewhere that was not magical. Technically, there would be 3/4 bloods, 4/5 bloods, and so forth, but half-blood is just the universal name. Mudblood just means that both of your parents were not magical. Now if a squib married a muggle, and the child was a wizard, based on my description, would he be a mudblood or a half-blood??
The child of a muggle and a Squib would be a half-blood without any magical powers.
I got the impression that it is a new development for the wizards to intermingle with Muggles. They only did so at all because there were becoming fewer and fewer pure blood wizards. Perhaps a couple of hundred years ago all or most wizards were pure blood. There has not really been time for developments such as 4/5 blooded wizards.
Originally posted by megajoint
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...
ALL wizards live longer than muggles solely because their innate magic preserves them from injury and bodily breakdown. A mudblood would live as long as a pureblood.
Don't they say somewhere that he's a half blood because so was Voldmort? He and Voldy are one in the same and have similar lines because they are both alike in their ancestry as well? So he's not a full pure blood, because as sirius was saying in the 5th book, the pure bloods all marry in to each other, to stay pure, but if you've got muggle blood somewhere from either side of your family (ie great grandparents such as harry) you're not of pure blood, even though both your parents were witch/wizard... just a thought.
No, he is HALF-blood.
James' blood is pure, but every single drop of Lily's blood is worthless.
ASSUMING that no weed grew out of that pile of dirt Harry is an unbalanced hybrid, exactly HALF one species and exactly HALF another species.
(gosh how can something so simple possibly be so difficult to understand, I don't know... ❌ )
I agree fully, angelsflame... unless of course JK herself said it somewhere, in some interview or something.... but Harry is a PURE BLOOD.... both his parents were a wizard/witch... Lily's background has nothing to do with the outcome of her child being a half-blood.... as long as she married a pure blood, James, Harry is a Pure Blood.
The End.