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Jul. 6th, 2006 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212This is just a question that's been bugging me for a while, and given the amount of Harry Potter fans on my flist, where better to bring it up?
Okay, so in the books we're given three basic categories for wizarding birth. There are pure-bloods, half-bloods, and Muggleborn. Of the three, Muggleborn is the easiest to define, as a person born of two non-magical parents. Purebloods are also relatively easy to define, they're children born from families that have been magical for several generations. But how do you define halfbloods? I mean, we've got situations where one parent is magical and the other is a Muggle, and we've got Harry, whose parents both were magical, but Lily was a Muggleborn, and he's still technically a half-blood. Presumably, if two Muggleborns marry, their children are also considered halfbloods.
But where does it end? How long does it take for a wizarding lineage to turn from half-blooded to pure-blooded, if they continuously marry others who are magical? Ideas anyone? Bueller?
Okay, so in the books we're given three basic categories for wizarding birth. There are pure-bloods, half-bloods, and Muggleborn. Of the three, Muggleborn is the easiest to define, as a person born of two non-magical parents. Purebloods are also relatively easy to define, they're children born from families that have been magical for several generations. But how do you define halfbloods? I mean, we've got situations where one parent is magical and the other is a Muggle, and we've got Harry, whose parents both were magical, but Lily was a Muggleborn, and he's still technically a half-blood. Presumably, if two Muggleborns marry, their children are also considered halfbloods.
But where does it end? How long does it take for a wizarding lineage to turn from half-blooded to pure-blooded, if they continuously marry others who are magical? Ideas anyone? Bueller?