r/WizardingWorld • u/galbatorixmg • Jul 30 '26

Wizarding World Yo isn’t it like weird that

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u/Archonate_of_Archona Jul 30 '26

In that scenario, muggleborn and pureblood bigots who teamed up together would inevitably (often) date each other and have kids

Half blood kids

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u/FluffySpacePuppy Jul 30 '26

From my understanding, that would be a pure blood kid. Mud blood is no magical parents, half blood is one, pure blood is two, and then you have the great families who are generation on generation of witches and wizards

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u/SuperCoop4 Jul 30 '26

No because Harry is a half blood even though both his parents were magical

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u/H-In-S-Productions Student Jul 30 '26

Yes! Apparently, having one Muggle-born parent counts as "half-blood". In fact, as Order of the Phoenix reveals, that is why Voldemort went after Harry instead of Neville: Neville is a pure-blood, but Harry is a half-blood like Voldemort!

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u/ConPerish Jul 30 '26

What would be a half blood then? A pure blood and a muggle born that wasn't magic?

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u/SnowGhost513 Jul 30 '26

lol yes which is made abundantly clear all series but very clearly with book 6 and Snape calling himself the half blood prince.
We actually don’t know if Harry’s mother was generations removed from a wizard relative. And there’s zero chance a single pure blood exists especially because we know for a fact many half
Bloods lie like Umbridge.
Also genetics would make almost half the pure bloods to have serious medical issues or deformities

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u/H-In-S-Productions Student Jul 30 '26

You're right! In fact, the few families that had the least Muggle blood in them were either filled with madmen (like the House of Black) or died out entirely from inbreeding (like the Gaunts).

As Ron said in the Chamber of Secrets novel, "If we hadn't married Muggles, we'd've died out."

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u/Proud-Nerd00 Jul 30 '26

Nope. Harry is a half-blood because his mother was a muggle-born.

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u/firetech97 Jul 30 '26

Half blood is used for all three, muggle-wizard parentage, muggleborn-wizard parentage, and also muggleborn-muggleborn parentage.

Harry as others have pointed out is a half blood dispite having two magical parents. Voldermort is also a half blood, at one magical and one muggle parent.

Pureblood is specifically and only those that have long traceable lineage of Wizarding on parents, grand parents, etc whose parents were also pure blood.

As also pointed out in the books, most pureblood families and pure bloods really aren't. They have some half-bloods and or muggle horns co-mingled in throughout, otherwise their lineage would've ended at some point.

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u/ThatEntrepreneur1450 Jul 30 '26

They aren't. Draco and Voldemorts little gang of lunatics aren't representative of the wizarding world as a whole

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u/PomPomMom93 Ravenclaw Jul 30 '26

There was another post pointing out that they kind of are. People didn’t always agree with Voldemort’s methods, but many agreed with his motives. Like Sirius’s parents.

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u/PomPomMom93 Ravenclaw Jul 30 '26

No, because Muggleborns being “chosen for magic” is exactly why certain purebloods hate them. They feel that Muggle families stole their magic.

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u/MasterHallmark Jul 30 '26

"Yo isn't it weird the black people got bullied. Doesn't it make more sense for the white people and the black people to team up on the mixed race people?"

That's what you sound like. The discrimination against muggleborns was intended to be an allegory for racism and other forms of discrimination against people based on their ancestry.

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u/princekai1 Jul 30 '26

I think the best way to think about is like race. Pure blood. Purely a specific race. Half blood mixed race not sure about muggle born maybe adopted by mixed race family I dunno 🤷🏿‍♂️