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Maxilocks · 12-16-2010, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen

you know this has always been the part that felt counter-intuitive to me: Pure/Halfblood+ Muggle= Half-blood (make sense) but Pureblood+ Muggleborn= Halfblood? why would that child be Halfblood if both parents are magical?

Because it's not about your parents being able to use magic, but being of pure magical blood, meaning that both parents have to be born to pureblood parents, not just know magic. That's why wizards and witches that believe in blood superiority are so smug - they can boast that they've never, never at all, had any muggles in their lineage.

Frankly, I find it really, really easy to decide if a character is a pureblood or halfblood. Rowling's rules about it have always seemed crystal clear to me. For meee... No muggles in the lineage? That's a pureblood. Muggle-born wizards and witches in the lineage? That's a halfblood. Both parents muggles that can't use magic [and aren't squibs]? Then the child is a muggle-born witch or wizard. I believe that to be canon. ^___^

12-16-2010, 05:30 AM	#16 (permalink)
Maxilocks SS Featured Author Türk Bilgini Bugbear Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: {in a leap of faith} Posts: 31,791 Hogwarts RPG Name: Sarani Glass Graduated x12	♥ Mrs. Itachi Uchiha™ & MAJNOO! : Bleach & Kyo & Natsume ♥ [ Maxh!Jesh ] Quote: Originally Posted by Steelsheen you know this has always been the part that felt counter-intuitive to me: Pure/Halfblood+ Muggle= Half-blood (make sense) but Pureblood+ Muggleborn= Halfblood? why would that child be Halfblood if both parents are magical? Because it's not about your parents being able to use magic, but being of pure magical blood, meaning that both parents have to be born to pureblood parents, not just know magic. That's why wizards and witches that believe in blood superiority are so smug - they can boast that they've never, never at all, had any muggles in their lineage. Frankly, I find it really, really easy to decide if a character is a pureblood or halfblood. Rowling's rules about it have always seemed crystal clear to me. For meee... No muggles in the lineage? That's a pureblood. Muggle-born wizards and witches in the lineage? That's a halfblood. Both parents muggles that can't use magic [and aren't squibs]? Then the child is a muggle-born witch or wizard. I believe that to be canon. ^___^