Discourse on the Purity of Blood and Harry Potter

Discourse on the Purity of Blood and Harry Potter

Pure Blood:-

             The pure-blood Malfoy family, who believe in blood supremacy
Pure-blood families are wizards and witches without known muggles or muggle-borns on their family tree. Some have achieved this simply by removing any muggles or squibs from their family trees and pretending they never existed.
Many pure-bloods consider themselves to be akin to royalty in the wizarding world, or at the very least the elite. They often disdain those of different blood status and Muggles, some even arguing that Muggle-borns should not be admitted into the wizarding world. The Death Eater organisation took this philosophy to an extreme, striving to eliminate Muggle-borns altogether.

Half blood:-

                 Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't married Muggles we'd've died out."
—Rubeus Hagrid regarding the wizarding population.

                  Harry Potter and his children are half-bloods, with known Muggle ancestry Wizards with parents or grandparents split between Muggles and wizards are referred to as half-bloods. Due to the dominance of the magic gene, children born to at least one magical parent will usually be magical themselves. This means that a non-magical child born to a Muggle and a wizard is considered a Squib, not a Muggle.
Hagrid: "See, the thing is, Harry, there're some wizards, like the Malfoy family, who think they're better'n everyone else because they’re what people call 'pure-blood'."
Harry Potter: "That's horrible!"
Hagrid: "And it's codswallop, to boot. 'Dirty blood.' Why, there isn’t a wizard alive today that’s not half-blood or less."
— Rubeus Hagrid and Harry Potter discussing blood purity.


Mud blood:-


                  "Mud blood's a really foul name for someone who is Muggle-born — you know, non-magic parents. There are some wizards — like Malfoy's family — who think they're better than everyone else because they're what people call pure-blood… I mean, the rest of us know it doesn't make any difference at all."
—Rubeus Hagrid explaining blood prejudice to Ron Weasley and Harry Potter.
 
            Muggle-born Hermione Granger is the daughter of two Muggle dentists.
A child born with magic to two Muggle parents is considered a Muggle-born. In wizarding Britain, they are allowed to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, although some other schools, such as Durmstrang Institute, do not admit muggle-borns. Salazar Slytherin fell out of favour with the other Founders of Hogwarts because he wanted to limit attendance only to those from all-magic families.

(Nejad) (Blood status)

Works Cited

Blood status. 18 Frebruary 2018 <http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_status>.

Nejad, Kayhan. 2010-11 Winner:"Literal and Metaphorical: Racial Themes in Harry Potter" by Kayan Nejad. 15 March 2012. 18 Ferbruary 2018

 <https://depts.washington.edu/egonline/2012/03/2010-11-winner-literal-and-metaphorical-racial-themes-in-harry-potter-by-kayhan-nejad/>.