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Lily was Muggleborn, or more commonly referred to as mudblood by the Pureblood lines. James, however, was Pureblood. When Lily and James had a child, Harry, he became half-blood. The only way to achieve Pureblood status is to have your entire line of ancestry be Pureblooded. Your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, all had to ...
The family has, however, eschewed the somewhat dangerous practice 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.
Canon seems to conflict a bit on whether Voldemort's Death Eaters knew that Voldemort was a half-blood. In Half-Blood Prince, Tom Riddle refers negatively to his parentage and it reads as if his fellow Slytherins found it amusing in a derisive way, even though Salazar Slytherin was the ancestor of Tom Riddle (HBP - chapter 23 - Horcruxes).
Snape was a unpopular kid when he attended Hogwarts, and was always bullied by Harry's father. His mother also attended Hogwarts, and was a pure-blood with the last name "Prince". Snape's father was a muggle, so when Snape was born, he was a half blood. The kids who bullied him called him "The Half-Blood Prince", and that is what he was known as.
‘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 –”-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 13 (The Muggle-born Registration Commission)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - p.594 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 30, The White Tomb This adds to your sense of betrayal, it contributes to your feelings about Snape, it is all part of the backstory of Snape, with its many twists and turns, which all contribute to the power and clarity of one of the great secrets of Harry Potter.
OK, figured it out. This is based on canon, but in my opinion, slightly speculatively so. Kendra's Wikia page lists her as Muggle-born (thus making Dumbledore half blood, if true), based on the following conversation in "Deathly Hallows" during the Bill/Fleur wedding:
And Voldemort (aside from being half-blood) wasn't too picky at the expense of practicality - heck, he employed Fenrir Greyback, a werewolf. As far as Snape, he had a host of reasons to pick him: Devoted to Dark Arts ("up to his eyeballs in dark arts" as Sirius said) Master Potioner. Overall talented and powerful wizard
Basically, to be a pureblood, you must come from magical families on both sides, not just two magic-using parents. Conversely, any muggle blood makes you 'half-blood' at best. From Pottermore: "The term 'pure-blood' refers to a family or individual without Muggle (non-magic) blood. The concept is generally associated with Salazar Slytherin, one ...
Viewed 979 times. 1. In the Harry Potter book series Harry finds Snape's (Half-Blood Prince) old Potions journal. Not only does it help him with potions tremendously, (let's face it, Harry is a total science fluke) it also shows him new spells Snape created to probably use on James' band of hoodlums for picking on him, as well as other bullies.
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