People of this mixed parentage are called half-bloods; magical people with any Muggle ancestry on the one side or the other are half-bloods as well. The most prominent Muggle-born in the Harry Potter series is Hermione Granger, who was born to Muggles of undisclosed names.
For example, Lily Evans told her former friend Severus Snape that if he was going to refer to other Muggle-borns as "Mudbloods", then he had to use the term for her as well, and Hermione Granger declared that she was proud to be a "Mudblood" in 1998.
Coincidentally, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley are each of the three distinct types of wizards; Harry being a half-blood, Hermione being a Muggle-born, and Ron being a pure-blood.
"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.
Mudblood was a highly derogatory term for either a Muggle or a Muggle-born or half-blood wizard or witch, though more so the former than the latter; that is, individuals with close Muggle relatives.
Hermione being Tortured by Bellatrix in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (HD)
Is Harry a pureblood?
Second the designation of pureblood, half-blood etc. is entirely concerned with your descent. But on both sides. Harry is a half-blood because his mother was born to a Muggle family while his father was born to a Wizarding couple.
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.
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.
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 ...
pureblood = a PURELY wizarding lineage. So while Lily may have been a witch, her parents were muggles which means her and her children and their children and so on cannot be purebloods because they will always have those non magical ancestors.
Plus, it was implied in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that he was pure-blood which could serve to be another factor in his wealthy background. Despite this, Cedric never managed to inherit the fortune of the Diggory family given his untimely death at the hands of Lord Voldemort.
If, by unfortunate means, Muggles do happen to observe the working of magic, the Ministry of Magic sends Obliviators to cast Memory Charms upon them, causing them to forget the event. Some Muggles are aware of the wizarding world.
He took particular pleasure in taunting Hermione Granger, who just happened to have Muggle parents. Malfoy called her 'Mudblood', a very grave insult referring to a wizard or witch born to non-magic parents.
She and her husband were proud and accepting of their daughter's identity as a witch, which explained some strange things which happened around her when she was a child. They entered the magical world in 1992 to buy Hermione's school supplies, and were assisted by Arthur Weasley.
Luna Lovegood is a Pureblood witch, who was sorted into Gryffindor House during Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry.
They decided that they needed to see what I looked like with white hair. It meant the first of many bleaching that would become a staple in my life for the next ten years.
J.K. Rowling says Draco doesn't have a patronus because he never learned the spell but I think it's because he doesn't have any powerful happy memories to use.
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.
Multiple characters are portrayed in the series as living in poverty, from the Weasley family to Remus Lupin. But this poverty is created due to a limitation of magic creating a scarcity of resources such as food and other goods.
Lyra Druella Malfoy ( b. 1977 ) was a Pure-blood witch, born to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black), the twin of Talitha Malfoy and the elder sister of Draco Malfoy.
She missed Snape, but she knew she could never forgive him. Snape never stopped trying to make amends. But Lily remained steadfast. She could not, would not, forgive him.
In the heat of the moment, Snape lost control and called Lily the forbidden word. He called her a mud-blood by accident because he was frustrated that lily did not like his closest friends. He did not mean it.
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.
