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[[File:Potters3.gif|248x248px|thumb|Half-blood [[Harry Potter]] is the son of a pure-blood wizard and a Muggle-born witch]]
  
[[File:Potters3.gif|248x248px|thumb|Half-blood [[Harry Potter]] is the son of a pure-blood wizard and a Muggle-born witch]]
 
{{Quote|Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.|Half-blood statistic and [[Blood status|blood purity]]|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
  
{{Quote|Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.|Half-blood statistic and [[Blood status|blood purity]]|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
   
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'''Half-blood''' was the term commonly given to [[wizardkind|wizards and witches]] who had known [[Muggle]] or [[Muggle-born]] parents or grandparents. By the [[1990s]], half-bloods were the most common type of magical person, as the pure-blood wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.<ref name="harry">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060316221500/https://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=58 FAQ] at {{JKRS}} - "The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents.
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'''Half-blood''' is the term commonly given to [[wizardkind|wizards and witches]] who had known [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] or [[Muggle-born]] parents or grandparents. By the [[1990s]], half-bloods were the most common type of [[Wizardkind|wizard or witch]], as the [[pure-blood]] wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.<ref name="harry">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060316221500/https://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=58 FAQ] at {{JKRS}} - "The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents.
 
If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."</ref><ref name="CS" />
  
If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."</ref><ref name="CS" />
   
 
==Overview==
  
==Overview==
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It should be noted that any wizard who is neither [[Pure-blood]] nor [[Muggle-born]] is considered a Half-blood, even if they have two wizard parents; they need not have ''exactly'' half-Muggle/half-wizard heritage.
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It should be noted that any wizard or witch who is neither [[pure-blood]] nor [[Muggle-born]] is considered half-blood, even if they have two magical parents; they need not have ''exactly'' half-Muggle/half-wizard heritage.
   
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Non-magical children born with at least one magical parent are considered [[Squib]]s by the wizarding community rather than Half-bloods or Muggles.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110713111531/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=19 Squibs]" at {{JKRS}}</ref> Examples include [[Martha Steward II]], [[Dolores Umbridge's brother]], and [[Gilderoy Lockhart's sisters|Gilderoy Lockhart's two sisters]]. Because of their Muggle parentage, many end up assimilating into the Muggle population as they would have more trouble thriving within the magical community although some are able to carve out niches for themselves such as [[Argus Filch]].
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Non-magical children born with at least one magical parent are considered [[Squib]]s by the wizarding community rather than Half-bloods or Muggles.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110713111531/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=19 Squibs]" at {{JKRS}}</ref> Examples include [[Martha Steward II]], [[Dolores Umbridge's brother]], and [[Gilderoy Lockhart's sisters|Gilderoy Lockhart's two sisters]]. Because of their Muggle parentage, many end up assimilating into the Muggle population as they would have more trouble thriving within the magical community.
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Magical children born to a Muggle-born and a Muggle are considered half-bloods, such as [[Penny Haywood|Penny]] and [[Beatrice Haywood]].
   
 
==Treatment==
  
==Treatment==
 
{{Quote|You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare... He dared — he dares — he stands there — filthy half-blood — |Prejudice against Harry Potter's half-blood status from Bellatrix Lestrange|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)}}[[File:Potter family2.png|240px|thumb|left|[[Harry Potter]] and his children are half-bloods with known Muggle ancestry]]
  
{{Quote|You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare... He dared — he dares — he stands there — filthy half-blood — |Prejudice against Harry Potter's half-blood status from Bellatrix Lestrange|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)}}[[File:Potter family2.png|240px|thumb|left|[[Harry Potter]] and his children are half-bloods with known Muggle ancestry]]
   
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Those who believe in the importance of [[Blood status|blood purity]] consider half-bloods to be inferior because of their [[Muggle]] heritage, though superior to [[Muggle-born]]s. As such, some families such as the Malfoys allowed them to marry into their pure-blood family and could do so without affecting their family's pure-blood status.<ref name="malfoy">{{PM|the-malfoy-family}} - "From the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy onwards, no Malfoy has married a Muggle or Muggle-born. The family has, however, eschewed the somewhat dangerous practise of inter-marrying within such a small pool of pure-bloods that they become enfeebled or unstable, unlike a small minority of fanatic families such as the Gaunts and Lestranges, and many a half-blood appears on the Malfoy family tree."</ref>
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Those who believe in the importance of [[Blood status|blood purity]] consider half-bloods to be inferior because of their [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] heritage, though superior to [[Muggle-born]]s. As such, some families such as the [[Malfoy family|Malfoys]] allowed them to marry into their pure-blood family and could do so without affecting their family's pure-blood status.<ref name="malfoy">{{WW|the-malfoy-family}} - "From the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy onwards, no Malfoy has married a Muggle or Muggle-born. The family has, however, eschewed the somewhat dangerous practise of inter-marrying within such a small pool of pure-bloods that they become enfeebled or unstable, unlike a small minority of fanatic families such as the Gaunts and Lestranges, and many a half-blood appears on the Malfoy family tree."</ref>
   
 
Other more fanatical families such as the [[House of Gaunt|Gaunts]], [[Lestrange family|Lestranges]], and [[House of Black|Blacks]], require all marriages to be those of [[Pure-blood]].<ref name="malfoy" /><ref name="gaunt">{{HBP|B|10}} - Marvolo Gaunt: "Centuries it’s been in our family, that’s how far back we go, and pure-blood all the way!"</ref> Members of these families are more likely to use "half-blood" in a derogatory manner, similar to the epithet "[[Mudblood]]"; [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] did so on multiple occasions,<ref name="OTP35">{{OOTP|B|35}}</ref> and the [[Walburga Black's portrait|portrait of Walburga Black]] often equated half-bloods with [[Half-breed]]s.<ref>{{OOTP}}</ref>
  
Other more fanatical families such as the [[House of Gaunt|Gaunts]], [[Lestrange family|Lestranges]], and [[House of Black|Blacks]], require all marriages to be those of [[Pure-blood]].<ref name="malfoy" /><ref name="gaunt">{{HBP|B|10}} - Marvolo Gaunt: "Centuries it’s been in our family, that’s how far back we go, and pure-blood all the way!"</ref> Members of these families are more likely to use "half-blood" in a derogatory manner, similar to the epithet "[[Mudblood]]"; [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] did so on multiple occasions,<ref name="OTP35">{{OOTP|B|35}}</ref> and the [[Walburga Black's portrait|portrait of Walburga Black]] often equated half-bloods with [[Half-breed]]s.<ref>{{OOTP}}</ref>
   
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Some half-bloods expressed prejudice towards those with Muggle heritage, despite having some themselves, and clung to what wizarding heritage they had. Notably [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] persecuted Muggles and Muggle-borns, despite the fact that his mother ([[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]]) was a pure-blood witch and his father ([[Tom Riddle Senior|Tom Riddle Snr]]) was a Muggle. He denied his Muggle heritage, instead emphasising his wizard ancestors; his legend-entitled nickname was "[[Tom Riddle|''Heir of Slytherin'']]" because his most notable wizard ancestor ([[Salazar Slytherin]]) was a famous pure-blood champion, which made himself more believable.<ref name="CS">{{COS|B|7}} - Ron: "Most wizards these days are half-blood any-way. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.”"</ref> [[Severus Snape]] may be another example; his self-entitled nickname was "[[Severus Snape|''Half-Blood Prince'']]" because his mother ([[Eileen Prince]]) was a pure-blood witch and his father ([[Tobias Snape]]) was a Muggle. However, [[Remus Lupin]] reported that he never used the nickname openly. This, as well as Snape's membership in the [[Death Eaters]], suggests he may have been ashamed of his Muggle heritage, at least in his early life.<ref name="HBP">{{HBP}}</ref> In fact, these people, along with some other Death Eaters, pretend to be pure-bloods, hiding their Muggle heritage from anyone else.<ref>{{HBP|B|12}} - " "“The Death Eaters can’t all be pure-blood, there aren’t enough pure-blood wizards left,” said Hermione stubbornly. “I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It’s only Muggle-borns they hate, they’d be quite happy to let you and Ron join up.”""</ref> Ironically (or perhaps because of), regarding the [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|prophecy concerning his defeat]], Voldemort chose to go after the half-blood [[Harry Potter]] instead of the pure-blood [[Neville Longbottom]].
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Some half-bloods expressed prejudice towards those with Muggle heritage, despite having some themselves, and clung to what wizarding heritage they had. Notably [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] persecuted Muggles and Muggle-borns, despite the fact that his mother ([[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]]) was a pure-blood witch and his father ([[Tom Riddle Senior|Tom Riddle Snr]]) was a Muggle. He denied his Muggle heritage, instead emphasising his wizard ancestors; his legend-entitled nickname was "[[Tom Riddle|''Heir of Slytherin'']]" because his most notable wizard ancestor ([[Salazar Slytherin]]) was a famous pure-blood champion, which made himself more believable.<ref name="CS">{{COS|B|7}} - Ron: "Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.”"</ref> [[Severus Snape]] may be another example; his self-entitled nickname was "''[[Severus Snape|Half-Blood Prince]]''" because his mother ([[Eileen Prince]]) was a pure-blood witch and his father ([[Tobias Snape]]) was a Muggle. However, [[Remus Lupin]] reported that he never used the nickname openly. This, as well as Snape's membership in the [[Death Eaters]], suggests he may have been ashamed of his Muggle heritage, at least in his early life.<ref name="HBP">{{HBP}}</ref> In fact, these people, along with some other Death Eaters, pretend to be pure-bloods, hiding their Muggle heritage from anyone else.<ref>{{HBP|B|12}} - " "“The Death Eaters can’t all be pure-blood, there aren’t enough pure-blood wizards left,” said Hermione stubbornly. “I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It’s only Muggle-borns they hate, they’d be quite happy to let you and Ron join up.”""</ref> Ironically (or perhaps because of), regarding the [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|prophecy concerning his defeat]], Voldemort chose to go after the half-blood [[Harry Potter]] instead of the pure-blood [[Neville Longbottom]].
   
 
When the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] fell under Voldemort's control in [[1997]], Muggle-borns were openly persecuted and pure-bloods were favoured above all else. Half-bloods were still accepted at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] and in the [[British Ministry of Magic]], but were not treated as well as the pure-blood members.<ref name="DH">{{DH|B|29}} - Neville: "They don’t want to spill too much pure blood, so they’ll torture us a bit if we’re mouthy but they won’t actually kill us."</ref><ref>{{DH|B|13}} - "“No, no, I’m half-blood, I’m half-blood, I tell you! My father was a wizard, he was, look him up, Arkie Alderton, he’s a well-known broomstick designer, look him up, I tell you — get your hands off me, get your hands off —”"</ref>
  
When the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] fell under Voldemort's control in [[1997]], Muggle-borns were openly persecuted and pure-bloods were favoured above all else. Half-bloods were still accepted at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] and in the [[British Ministry of Magic]], but were not treated as well as the pure-blood members.<ref name="DH">{{DH|B|29}} - Neville: "They don’t want to spill too much pure blood, so they’ll torture us a bit if we’re mouthy but they won’t actually kill us."</ref><ref>{{DH|B|13}} - "“No, no, I’m half-blood, I’m half-blood, I tell you! My father was a wizard, he was, look him up, Arkie Alderton, he’s a well-known broomstick designer, look him up, I tell you — get your hands off me, get your hands off —”"</ref>
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! scope="col"|Wizard(s)
  
! scope="col"|Wizard(s)
 
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|[[Seamus Finnigan]]
  
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|[[Seamus Finnigan's father|Mr Finnigan]]
  
|[[Seamus Finnigan's father|Mr Finnigan]]
 
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|[[Beatrice Haywood]]<ref name="Haywood">{{HM|3|Penny for Your Thoughts}}</ref>
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|[[Beatrice Haywood]]
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<ref name="Haywood">{{HM|3|Penny for Your Thoughts}}</ref>
 
|rowspan="2"|[[Penny Haywood's mother|Mother]] ([[Muggle-born]])<ref>{{HM|5}} [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]]</ref>
  
|rowspan="2"|[[Penny Haywood's mother|Mother]] ([[Muggle-born]])<ref>{{HM|5}} [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]]</ref>
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|rowspan="2"|[[Penny Haywood's father|Father]]<ref>{{HM|5|3|hm}}</ref>
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|rowspan="2"|[[Penny Haywood's father|Father]]
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<ref>{{HM|5|3|hm}}</ref>
 
|-
  
|-
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|[[Penny Haywood]]<ref name="Haywood"/>
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|[[Penny Haywood]]
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<ref name="Haywood"/>
 
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|[[Gilderoy Lockhart]]<ref name="lockhart">{{PM|gilderoy-lockhart}}</ref>
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|[[Gilderoy Lockhart]]
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<ref name="lockhart">{{WW|gilderoy-lockhart}}</ref>
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|[[Gilderoy Lockhart's mother|Mrs Lockhart]]
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|[[Gilderoy Lockhart's mother|Mrs Lockhart]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
 
|[[Gilderoy Lockhart's father|Mr Lockhart]]
  
|[[Gilderoy Lockhart's father|Mr Lockhart]]
 
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|[[Remus Lupin|Remus John Lupin]]
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|[[Remus Lupin]]<ref name="lupin1">[http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm World Book Day webchat, [[4 March]] 2004]</ref><ref name="lupin2">{{PM|remus-lupin}}</ref>
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<ref name="lupin1">[http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm World Book Day webchat, ][[4 March]]<span> 2004</span></ref><ref name="lupin2">{{WW|remus-lupin}}</ref>
 
|[[Lyall Lupin]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
  
|[[Lyall Lupin]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
 
|[[Hope Howell]]
  
|[[Hope Howell]]
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| [[Mafalda's mother|Mother]]
  
| [[Mafalda's mother|Mother]]
 
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|[[Minerva McGonagall]]<ref name="pottermore">{{PM|professor-mcgonagall}}</ref>
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|[[Minerva McGonagall]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Isobel Ross]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
  
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Robert McGonagall]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Isobel Ross]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Robert McGonagall]]
 
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|[[Malcolm McGonagall]]
  
|[[Malcolm McGonagall]]
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|[[Robert McGonagall Jr]]
  
|[[Robert McGonagall Jr]]
 
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|[[Tom Riddle]]
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|[[Tom Riddle|Tom Marvolo Riddle]]
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<ref name="tomriddle">{{COS|B|13}} - "“Half-blood, sir,” said Riddle. “Muggle father, witch mother.”"</ref>
 
|[[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]] ([[pure-blood]])
  
|[[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]] ([[pure-blood]])
 
|[[Tom Riddle Senior]]
  
|[[Tom Riddle Senior]]
 
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|[[Severus Snape]]
  
|[[Severus Snape]]
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<ref name="severussnape">{{HBP|B|30}} - "He’s just like Voldemort. Pure-blood mother, Muggle father . . . ashamed of his parentage, trying to make himself feared using the Dark Arts, gave himself an impressive new name — Lord Voldemort — the Half-Blood Prince — how could Dumbledore have missed — ?”"</ref>
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|[[Eileen Snape|Eileen Prince]] ([[pure-blood]])
 
|[[Tobias Snape]]
  
|[[Tobias Snape]]
 
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|[[Rionach Steward]]<ref name="PottermoreIlvermorny">{{PM|ilvermorny}}</ref>
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|[[Rionach Steward]]
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<ref name="PottermoreIlvermorny">{{WW|ilvermorny}}</ref>
 
|[[Isolt Sayre]] ([[pure-blood]])
  
|[[Isolt Sayre]] ([[pure-blood]])
 
|[[James Steward]]
  
|[[James Steward]]
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|[[Dean Thomas's mother|Mrs Thomas]]
  
|[[Dean Thomas's mother|Mrs Thomas]]
 
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|[[Sybill Trelawney]]<ref name="sybilltrewlawney">{{PM|sybill-trelawney}}</ref>
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<ref name="sybilltrewlawney">{{WW|sybill-trelawney}}</ref>
 
|[[Sybill Trelawney's father|Mr Trelawney]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
  
|[[Sybill Trelawney's father|Mr Trelawney]] ([[pure-blood]] or half-blood)
 
|[[Sybill Trelawney's mother|Mrs Trelawney]]
  
|[[Sybill Trelawney's mother|Mrs Trelawney]]
 
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|[[Celestina Warbeck]]<ref name="celestinawarbeck">{{PM|celestina-warbeck}}</ref>
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|[[Celestina Warbeck]]
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|[[Celestina Warbeck's father|Mr Warbeck]]
  
|[[Celestina Warbeck's father|Mr Warbeck]]
 
|[[Celestina Warbeck's mother|Mrs Warbeck]]
  
|[[Celestina Warbeck's mother|Mrs Warbeck]]
 
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|[[Dolores Umbridge]]<ref>{{PM|dolores-umbridge}}</ref>
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|[[Dolores Umbridge|Dolores Jane Umbridge]]
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<ref>{{WW|dolores-umbridge}}</ref>
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|[[Orford Umbridge]]
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|[[Orford Umbridge]] ([[pure-blood]])
 
|[[Ellen Cracknell]]
  
|[[Ellen Cracknell]]
 
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|[[Alfred Cattermole]]
  
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Mary Cattermole]]
 
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|[[Ellie Cattermole]]
  
|[[Ellie Cattermole]]
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|[[Dirk Cresswell]]
  
|[[Dirk Cresswell]]
 
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|[[Albus Dumbledore]]
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|[[Albus Dumbledore|Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Percival Dumbledore]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Percival Dumbledore]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Kendra Dumbledore]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Kendra Dumbledore]]
 
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|[[Aberforth Dumbledore]]
  
|[[Aberforth Dumbledore]]
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|[[Ariana Dumbledore]]
  
|[[Ariana Dumbledore]]
 
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|[[Garrick Ollivander]]<ref name="ollivander">{{PM|mr-ollivander}}</ref><ref name="ollivander2" />
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|[[Garrick Ollivander]]<ref name="ollivander">{{WW|mr-ollivander}}</ref><ref name="ollivander2">[https://www.pottermore.com/explore-the-story/garrick-ollivander Garrick Ollivander fact file] at {{PM}}</ref>
 
|[[Gervaise Ollivander]] ([[pure-blood]])<ref name="ollivander2" />
  
|[[Gervaise Ollivander]] ([[pure-blood]])<ref name="ollivander2" />
 
|[[Garrick Ollivander's mother|Mrs Ollivander]]<ref name="ollivander2" />
  
|[[Garrick Ollivander's mother|Mrs Ollivander]]<ref name="ollivander2" />
 
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|[[Harry Potter]]
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|[[Harry Potter|Harry James Potter]]
 
|[[James Potter I|James Potter]] ([[pure-blood]])
  
|[[James Potter I|James Potter]] ([[pure-blood]])
 
|[[Lily J. Potter|Lily Evans]]
  
|[[Lily J. Potter|Lily Evans]]
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|[[Hugo Granger-Weasley]]
  
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2"|[[Ronald Weasley]] ([[pure-blood]])
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[Ronald Weasley]] ([[pure-blood]])
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2"|[[Hermione Granger]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[Hermione Granger]]
 
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|[[Rose Granger-Weasley]]
  
|[[Rose Granger-Weasley]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2"|[[Edward Lupin]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |[[Edward Lupin|Edward Remus Lupin]]
 
|[[Remus Lupin]]
  
|[[Remus Lupin]]
 
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! scope="col" |Parent with Muggle or Muggle-born parent
 
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|[[Albus Potter|Albus S. Potter]]
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|[[Albus Potter|Albus Severus Potter]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3"|[[Harry Potter]] (Muggle-born mother)
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Harry Potter]] (Muggle-born mother)
 
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|[[James Potter II|James S. Potter]]
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|[[James Potter II|James Sirius Potter]]
 
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|[[Lily L. Potter]]
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|[[Lily L. Potter|Lily Luna Potter]]
 
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|[[Delphini]]
  
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* On the draft class list, [[Hannah Abbott]] was listed as a [[Muggle-born]],<ref name="HPM" /> but in a later interview, Rowling stated that she had always thought of Hannah as a [[pure-blood]]. To compromise, she was made a half-blood.<ref name="pottercast">[http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/12/23/transcript-of-part-1-of-pottercast-s-jk-rowling-interview PotterCast 130 transcript]</ref>
  
* On the draft class list, [[Hannah Abbott]] was listed as a [[Muggle-born]],<ref name="HPM" /> but in a later interview, Rowling stated that she had always thought of Hannah as a [[pure-blood]]. To compromise, she was made a half-blood.<ref name="pottercast">[http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/12/23/transcript-of-part-1-of-pottercast-s-jk-rowling-interview PotterCast 130 transcript]</ref>
 
* An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, several of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact half-blood, such as [[Albus Dumbledore]], [[Tom Riddle]], [[Severus Snape]], [[Minerva McGonagall]],and [[Harry Potter]].
  
* An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, several of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact half-blood, such as [[Albus Dumbledore]], [[Tom Riddle]], [[Severus Snape]], [[Minerva McGonagall]],and [[Harry Potter]].
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Half-blood Harry Potter is the son of a pure-blood wizard and a Muggle-born witch

"Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out."
— Half-blood statistic and blood purity[src]

Half-blood is the term commonly given to wizards and witches who had known Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents. By the 1990s, half-bloods were the most common type of wizard or witch, as the pure-blood wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.[1][2]

Overview

It should be noted that any wizard or witch who is neither pure-blood nor Muggle-born is considered half-blood, even if they have two magical parents; they need not have exactly half-Muggle/half-wizard heritage.

Non-magical children born with at least one magical parent are considered Squibs by the wizarding community rather than Half-bloods or Muggles.[3] Examples include Martha Steward II, Dolores Umbridge's brother, and Gilderoy Lockhart's two sisters. Because of their Muggle parentage, many end up assimilating into the Muggle population as they would have more trouble thriving within the magical community.

Magical children born to a Muggle-born and a Muggle are considered half-bloods, such as Penny and Beatrice Haywood.

Treatment

"You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare... He dared — he dares — he stands there — filthy half-blood — "
— Prejudice against Harry Potter's half-blood status from Bellatrix Lestrange[src]
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Harry Potter and his children are half-bloods with known Muggle ancestry

Those who believe in the importance of blood purity consider half-bloods to be inferior because of their Muggle heritage, though superior to Muggle-borns. As such, some families such as the Malfoys allowed them to marry into their pure-blood family and could do so without affecting their family's pure-blood status.[4]

Other more fanatical families such as the Gaunts, Lestranges, and Blacks, require all marriages to be those of Pure-blood.[4][5] Members of these families are more likely to use "half-blood" in a derogatory manner, similar to the epithet "Mudblood"; Bellatrix Lestrange did so on multiple occasions,[6] and the portrait of Walburga Black often equated half-bloods with Half-breeds.[7]

Some half-bloods expressed prejudice towards those with Muggle heritage, despite having some themselves, and clung to what wizarding heritage they had. Notably Lord Voldemort persecuted Muggles and Muggle-borns, despite the fact that his mother (Merope Gaunt) was a pure-blood witch and his father (Tom Riddle Snr) was a Muggle. He denied his Muggle heritage, instead emphasising his wizard ancestors; his legend-entitled nickname was "Heir of Slytherin" because his most notable wizard ancestor (Salazar Slytherin) was a famous pure-blood champion, which made himself more believable.[2] Severus Snape may be another example; his self-entitled nickname was "Half-Blood Prince" because his mother (Eileen Prince) was a pure-blood witch and his father (Tobias Snape) was a Muggle. However, Remus Lupin reported that he never used the nickname openly. This, as well as Snape's membership in the Death Eaters, suggests he may have been ashamed of his Muggle heritage, at least in his early life.[8] In fact, these people, along with some other Death Eaters, pretend to be pure-bloods, hiding their Muggle heritage from anyone else.[9] Ironically (or perhaps because of), regarding the prophecy concerning his defeat, Voldemort chose to go after the half-blood Harry Potter instead of the pure-blood Neville Longbottom.

When the Ministry of Magic fell under Voldemort's control in 1997, Muggle-borns were openly persecuted and pure-bloods were favoured above all else. Half-bloods were still accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and in the British Ministry of Magic, but were not treated as well as the pure-blood members.[10][11]

Parentage

Magical/Squib & Muggle

Wizard(s) Magical/Squib parent Muggle parent
Seamus Finnigan Mrs Finnigan Mr Finnigan
Beatrice Haywood

[12]

Mother (Muggle-born)[13] Father

[14]

Penny Haywood

[12]

Gilderoy Lockhart

[15]

Mrs Lockhart (pure-blood or half-blood) Mr Lockhart
Remus John Lupin

[16][17]

Lyall Lupin (pure-blood or half-blood) Hope Howell
Mafalda Pure-blood wizard/Squib father Mother
Minerva McGonagall

[18]

Isobel Ross (pure-blood or half-blood) Robert McGonagall
Malcolm McGonagall
Robert McGonagall Jr
Tom Marvolo Riddle

[19]

Merope Gaunt (pure-blood) Tom Riddle Senior
Severus Snape

[20]

Eileen Prince (pure-blood) Tobias Snape
Rionach Steward

[21]

Isolt Sayre (pure-blood) James Steward
Dean Thomas Father Mrs Thomas
Sybill Patricia Trelawney

[22]

Mr Trelawney (pure-blood or half-blood) Mrs Trelawney
Celestina Warbeck

[23]

Mr Warbeck Mrs Warbeck
Dolores Jane Umbridge

[24]

Orford Umbridge (pure-blood) Ellen Cracknell
Bowman Wright Mrs Wright Mr Wright

Pure/half-blood & Muggle-born

Wizard(s) Pure/half-blood parent Muggle-born parent
Alfred Cattermole Reginald Cattermole Mary Cattermole
Ellie Cattermole
Maisie Cattermole
Cresswell brothers Mrs Cresswell Dirk Cresswell
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore Percival Dumbledore Kendra Dumbledore
Aberforth Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore
Garrick Ollivander[25][26] Gervaise Ollivander (pure-blood)[26] Mrs Ollivander[26]
Harry James Potter James Potter (pure-blood) Lily Evans
Nymphadora Tonks Andromeda Black (pure-blood) Edward Tonks
Hugo Granger-Weasley Ronald Weasley (pure-blood) Hermione Granger
Rose Granger-Weasley

Both half-bloods

Wizard(s) Parents
Edward Remus Lupin Remus Lupin
Nymphadora Tonks

Muggle or Muggle-born grandparent

Wizard(s) Pure-blood parent Parent with Muggle or Muggle-born parent
Albus Severus Potter Ginny Weasley Harry Potter (Muggle-born mother)
James Sirius Potter
Lily Luna Potter
Delphini Bellatrix Lestrange Tom Riddle (Muggle father)

Unknown status

Wizard(s) Ancestor
Hannah Abbott At least one known Muggle parent or grandparent
Susan Bones
Millicent Bulstrode
Mundungus Fletcher
Porpentina Esther Goldstein At least one known Muggle or Muggle-born grandparent[27]
Queenie Goldstein
Quirinus Quirrell At least one known Muggle ancestor[28]

See also

Behind the scenes

  • On J. K. Rowling's draft list of students in Harry Potter's class, which is not considered canon due to several contradictions with the novels, the following students were mentioned as half-bloods:[29]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ FAQ at J. K. Rowling's official site - "The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents. If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 7 (Mudbloods And Murmurs) - Ron: "Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn’t married Muggles we’d’ve died out.”"
  3. ↑ Squibs" at J. K. Rowling's official site
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "The Malfoy Family" at Wizarding World - "From the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy onwards, no Malfoy has married a Muggle or Muggle-born. The family has, however, eschewed the somewhat dangerous practise of inter-marrying within such a small pool of pure-bloods that they become enfeebled or unstable, unlike a small minority of fanatic families such as the Gaunts and Lestranges, and many a half-blood appears on the Malfoy family tree."
  5. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 10 (The House of Gaunt) - Marvolo Gaunt: "Centuries it’s been in our family, that’s how far back we go, and pure-blood all the way!"
  6. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 35 (Beyond the Veil)
  7. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  8. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  9. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 12 (Silver and Opals) - " "“The Death Eaters can’t all be pure-blood, there aren’t enough pure-blood wizards left,” said Hermione stubbornly. “I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It’s only Muggle-borns they hate, they’d be quite happy to let you and Ron join up.”""
  10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 29 (The Lost Diadem) - Neville: "They don’t want to spill too much pure blood, so they’ll torture us a bit if we’re mouthy but they won’t actually kill us."
  11. ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 13 (The Muggle-Born Registration Commission) - "“No, no, I’m half-blood, I’m half-blood, I tell you! My father was a wizard, he was, look him up, Arkie Alderton, he’s a well-known broomstick designer, look him up, I tell you — get your hands off me, get your hands off —”"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Penny for Your Thoughts"
  13. ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5 Defence Against the Dark Arts
  14. ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 3 (Detention Before Extension) - History of Magic Lesson "Medieval Assembly of European Wizards"
  15. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Gilderoy Lockhart" at Wizarding World
  16. ↑ World Book Day webchat, 4 March 2004
  17. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Remus Lupin" at Wizarding World
  18. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Professor McGonagall" at Wizarding World
  19. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 (The Very Secret Diary) - "“Half-blood, sir,” said Riddle. “Muggle father, witch mother.”"
  20. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 30 (The White Tomb) - "He’s just like Voldemort. Pure-blood mother, Muggle father . . . ashamed of his parentage, trying to make himself feared using the Dark Arts, gave himself an impressive new name — Lord Voldemort — the Half-Blood Prince — how could Dumbledore have missed — ?”"
  21. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" at Wizarding World
  22. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Sybill Trelawney" at Wizarding World
  23. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Celestina Warbeck" at Wizarding World
  24. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Dolores Umbridge" at Wizarding World
  25. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Mr Ollivander" at Wizarding World
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Garrick Ollivander fact file at Pottermore
  27. ↑ See this image of Porpentina Goldstein's MACUSA identification card on display as part of a prop exhibition in Japan. Both of their parents died of Dragon Pox, showing that they were wizards, which means that their Muggle heritage was more distant.
  28. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Professor Quirrell" at Wizarding World
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Harry Potter and Me
  30. ↑ This individual refers to his father, a wizard, but later refers to films. This indicates that while having magical ancestry, he had some contact with the Muggle world. Thus, he was most likely a half-blood.
  31. ↑ PotterCast 130 transcript
  32. ↑ https://www.pottermore.com/news/watch-the-new-trailer-for-new-mobile-game-harry-potter-hogwarts-mystery
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