Why does Bellatrix call Harry a half-blood?

Harry is a half-blood, like the half-blood prince, because his mother was a muggleborn
muggleborn
Witches and wizards with non-magical parents are called Muggle-borns. There have also been some children known to have been born to one magical and one non-magical parent. 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.
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(aka a mud-blood). In the wizarding world there are: purebloods: those with wizard parents and grandparents. muggleborns: those with muggle parents and grandparents.
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Why is Harry Potter considered a half-blood?

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.
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Why does Voldemort call Harry a half-blood?

Voldemort had his issues as we all know. He believed that the wizards should be "Pure-blood" and that's why he killed his father, though he wasn't a wizard. He just couldn't accept that he wasn't "Pure-blood" so in his mind, by killing him he portrayed himself as "Pure-blood".
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Was Harry called a mudblood?

Yes, Harry is half-blood. We learned in PS4 that Lily's parents were Muggles. At least, that's the implication of Aunt Petunia's remarks that they were proud having a witch in the family. Voldemort, too, is half-blood: we learned in CS13 that his father was a Muggle (his mother was a witch).
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Was Harry's mom a Mudblood?

"Point me!" This article is about Harry Potter's mother. You may be looking for Harry Potter's daughter. Lily J. Potter (née Evans) (30 January, 1960–31 October, 1981) was an English Muggle-born witch, the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Evans, and the younger sister of Petunia Evans.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Bellatrix reveals herself to Harry and the others (HD)



Was Lily Potter an Animagus?

James Potter

James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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Is Lily Evans a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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Can Mudbloods be in Slytherin?

In the last book, one of the snatchers mentions that there aren't a lot of Slytherin mudbloods, which indicates there could be few muggle born Slytherins: "Well, well, looks like we really 'ave caught a little Slytherin." said Scabior. "Good for you, Vernon, 'cause there ain't a lot of Mudblood Slytherins.
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Is Draco a Mudblood?

Throughout the books, Draco Malfoy refers to Muggle-borns as Mudbloods, sometimes openly, in the midst of a large crowd of students. Especially in the early books, before the return of Voldemort.
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Is Lily Potter a pureblood?

Harry's father, James, is pureblood. Although his mother Lily is a witch, her parents are muggles, making her muggle born.
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Is Dumbledore a Pure-blood?

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 ...
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What happens if a half-blood marries a Pure-blood?

If a halfblood marries a pureblood will their children be pureblood or halfblood | Fandom. An individual is Pure-blood if they have no Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents.
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Is Potter a Pure-blood family?

Why didn't the Potters make the Sacred Twenty-Eight? Potter is a common Muggle surname. Harry's family didn't make the list, according to J.K. Rowling, because 'the anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood'.
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Is Voldemort a pureblood?

It is perhaps interesting that Voldemort himself is not a pureblood; while his mother, Merope Gaunt, was a member of one of the oldest Wizarding familes in existence, his hated father was a Muggle. In spite of this, he is still considered the heir of Salazar Slytherin.
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Is Ron Weasley a pure-blood?

His first appearance was in the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as the best friend of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. He is a member of the Weasley family, a pure blood family that resides in "The Burrow" outside Ottery St.
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Is Hermione a Muggle or Mudblood?

Hermione Granger declared that she was proud to be a "Mudblood" in 1998.
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Is Hermione a mud blood?

Hermione Granger is frequently referred to as a "mudblood" by prejudiced pure-bloods such as Draco Malfoy.
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How do Mudbloods get magic?

Mudbloods: Wizards can be born from non-magical parents because these mutations can pop up out of nowhere. There's a better chance of you being magical if your parents are on the high side of the normal range. Squibs: Would be the offspring that are born to magical parents but don't inherit the dominant wizarding gene.
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How is Hermione a wizard when her parents are Muggles?

Her life before Hogwarts is pretty vague. Know how Hermione a Wizard When Her Parents are Muggles? Hermione was born to her muggle/dentist parents and led a pretty common childhood. But contrary to children in wizard families, she inherited the magic genes despite her muggle background.
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Are there any Gryffindor Death Eaters?

Peter Pettigrew, (a.k.a Wormtail), is the only Death Eater known to have been in a House other than Slytherin (Gryffindor) while at Hogwarts.
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Has there ever been a Muggle-born in Slytherin?

"yes, we have traditionally tended to take students who come from long lines of witches and wizards, but nowadays you'll find plenty of people in Slytherin house who have at least one Muggle parent."
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Who has a crush on Hermione in half-blood Prince?

Cormac McLaggen | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom.
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How do Muggle-borns get wizard money?

Hogwarts does have a fund to help students, but that isn't necessarily for muggle borns. That is for students who can't afford school supplies. They change the muggle currency into wizards' currency at Gringotts.
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How do Muggle-borns become wizards?

Origin of magical abilities

Muggle-borns inherit magic from a distant ancestor; they are descended from Squibs who have married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy. The magic resurfaces unexpectedly many generations later.
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