Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Half-blood
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic | |
| Half-blood | |
|---|---|
| Type | Status |
| Features | Only one parent is a pure wizard/witch |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
A half-blood is someone with magical powers, yet only one pure-blood parent, the other being either Muggle or Muggle-born.
[edit] Analysis
Due to some process likely akin to hybrid vigor in genetics, quite often the most powerful wizards and witches spring from these intermarriages: classic examples would be Harry Potter, Tom Riddle, and Professor Snape. Equally, weaker wizards can come from pure-blood families; examples here would be Merope Gaunt and Neville Longbottom. However, there is quite a large faction of wizards, headed by Lord Voldemort, who believe that only pure-bloods should be educated in magic, and in fact that everyone other than the purebloods should be wiped off the face of the Earth.
[edit] Questions
- What parallels can be drawn between instances in Muggle World History such as the Civil Rights movement and the role of Half-Blood characters in Harry Potter?
- If you were a half-blood wizard how would you feel knowing that Voldemort was in power once more?
- How far can you say that the tensions between Voldemort and half-blood wizards is at the heart of the 2 Wizarding Wars?
