"Pure-blood" is the term applied to wizards and witches who have no Muggle blood, Muggle-borns, or half-bloods at all in their family trees. They are the rarest of the three blood statuses, with J.K. Rowling stating that ten per cent of the wizarding community is made up of pure-bloods.
Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
What is the strongest blood status in Harry Potter?
An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, some of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact either half-blood (such as Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Harry Potter) or ...
As Voldemort was a half-blood, he chose his "equal", Harry, whose mother was a Muggle-born witch, instead of Neville, who came from a long line of pure-blooded wizards.
No, Dumbledore is not a pure-blood, but in fact, he is a half-blood. Although both of his parents were magical, his mother was a Muggle-born, which technically gives Albus the status of a half-blood.
Draco Lucius Malfoy (b. 5 June 1980) was a British pure-blood wizard and the only son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black). The son of a Death Eater, Draco was raised to strongly believe in the importance of blood purity. He looked down on half-bloods and Muggle-borns.
McGonagall was born a half-blood witch as her father was a Muggle and her mother a witch. McGonagall began her Hogwarts education at the age of eleven and was sorted into Gryffindor after being the longest ever Hatstall between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
The Malfoys were a pure-blood wizarding family who were one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight - a list of pure-blood wizarding families published in the 1930s. Known for being aligned with the Dark Arts, the Malfoys had a history with Voldemort, with Lucius Malfoy being a Death Eater in You-Know-Who's innermost circle.
Slytherin was the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family with several notable members, particularly Salazar Slytherin. Salazar was one of the four co-founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the founder of Slytherin house. He lived in the 10th century.
Harry is a half-blood because his mother was born to a Muggle family while his father was born to a Wizarding couple. It doesn't matter what social standing someone manages to achieve or inherit to those who made the definition. Tonks is a halfblood despite being descended from the Black family on her mother's side.
yeh don' have ter be pureblood ter do it." implying that Cedric is a pure-blood. Since Cedric's parents were both wizards, he could not have been a Muggle-born anyway.
Despite being a pure-blood, he didn't believe that he was superior to other witches, wizards and Muggles. He had a lot going for him and his well-placed morals were even more impressive if you think about the start that he had in life. Sirius came from a family of pure-blood fanatics.
Yes. His mother was the giantess Fridwulfa, who was a member of the giant colony that he and Madame Maxime visited in OotP. His dad was a half-blood wizard, and that makes Hagrid a half-blood.
Rh-null blood can be accepted by anyone with a rare blood type in the Rh system. “Golden blood” is as rare in reality as it was in ancient Greek mythology: only forty-three people in the world are known to have had this blood type.
Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) (c. 1982 – August 2019) was a British pure-blood witch and a member of the Greengrass family, one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.
Also, James Potter was a pure-blood. One possible theory indicates that the author of the Directory considered the Potters and other "pure-blood" families (such as the Princes, the Crabbes, the Goyles, the Moodys, and the Browns) to have some amount of Muggle ancestry.
Neville is a pure-blood wizard born to Frank and Alice Longbottom, who were prominent Aurors and also members of the Order of the Phoenix during the first war against Lord Voldemort.
When asked what shape Draco's Patronus Charm is, Rowling replied that, at least by the end of the sixth book, Draco was not capable of producing a Patronus, as it is not magic routinely taught at Hogwarts.
Yes. Draco's mother is Sirius first cousin on his mother's side (Narcissa and Sirius are also second cousins on his father's side, as Sirius parents are first cousins).
The Potters' generational wealth is traced back to their ancestor, Linfred of Stinchcombe, who amassed a great fortune through his medicinal services and inventions of healing potions.
Severus Snape: "No. It doesn't make any difference." A Muggle-born (No-Maj-born in the United States), once known as a Magbob and also known by the pejorative Mudblood, was a witch or wizard who was born to two non-magical parents. Their magical abilities did not seem to be at all affected by their Muggle parentage.
Alice Longbottom was a pure-blood witch and Auror who worked for the Ministry of Magic during Lord Voldemort's first rise to power. She and her husband, Frank Longbottom, were also members of the Order of the Phoenix and fought against the Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War.
