![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
an HP question that isn't about ship wars! ([boggle]!)
so Seamus Finnigan is a halfblood, right? dad's a muggle, mam's a witch, nasty jar for father. ditto Tom Riddle, yeah? his mother was a witch and his father was a muggle, which has been clear since ... gosh, for a long time, at least since Goblet of Fire if not as far back as Chamber of Secrets.
actually i suppose i have two questions -- (1), do we know of any cases of a halfblood whose mother is a muggle and whose father is a wizard? and don't say Snape, because my whole point about that -- and about Harry as well, incidentally -- is that Lily Evans Potter(and Eileen Prince Snape) was a witch, albeit a muggle-born one. so (2) where is the line drawn? Harry is the child of a witch and a wizard; why is he not considered pureblooded? or, if he's a halfblood, surely he must be a different sort of halfblood than Seamus Finnigan, one of whose parents is an actual honest-to-god muggle.
and actually, (2a) what if one parent were a squib?
[eta: okay, so i'm high -- actually Snape's mother was a pureblood witch, presumably for several generations, and his father was a muggle, making him (as hermione points out) exactly like Riddle in terms of bloodlines, so never mind about him. but the question remains about harry and halfbloodedness, though blah blah grandparents, nuremberg, see comments. [g]]
actually i suppose i have two questions -- (1), do we know of any cases of a halfblood whose mother is a muggle and whose father is a wizard? and don't say Snape, because my whole point about that -- and about Harry as well, incidentally -- is that Lily Evans Potter
and actually, (2a) what if one parent were a squib?
[eta: okay, so i'm high -- actually Snape's mother was a pureblood witch, presumably for several generations, and his father was a muggle, making him (as hermione points out) exactly like Riddle in terms of bloodlines, so never mind about him. but the question remains about harry and halfbloodedness, though blah blah grandparents, nuremberg, see comments. [g]]