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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Is Harry Potter a Mudblood?

Was Harry a Mudblood? No, Harry was not a Mudblood. The term Mudblood is offensive and a very derogatory term used by blood purists to refer to people with a muggle ancestry. However, Harry was not completely of muggle ancestry.
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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 Dumbledore a pureblood?

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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Is Lily Potter a Pure-blood?

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 Harrys mom a Mudblood?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born.
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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 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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What if two Muggle-borns have a child?

It has nothing to do with genes and is just a construct of wizarding society. So the magical child of two muggle-born would be half-blood and a non-magical chld of two muggle-born a squib.
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What happens if two half-bloods have a kid?

The child would have a 25% chance of being a pure-blood, 50% of being another half-blood, and 25% of them being a squib.
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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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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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Was Tom Riddle's father a Muggle?

Voldemort's mother, Merope Gaunt, is Salazar Slytherin's direct descendant, and his father is Tom Riddle, a Muggle. During this time period, Voldemort is known by his birth name, Tom Marvolo Riddle.
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Was Lily Potter a Muggle or witch?

Lily Potter (née Evans) was a Muggle-born witch and Harry's mother. She was born 30 January 1960 and died on 31 October 1981 at age 21. She was quite young, 19 years old, when she became pregnant with Harry, giving birth to him at 20.
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Are the sacred 28 all related?

Behind the scenes

It is therefore very likely that all the families listed in the Sacred Twenty-Eight are related to each other.
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Is Dumbledore related to Godric Gryffindor?

Why Albus Dumbledore is a descendant of Godric Gryffindor : r/harrypotter.
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Is Grindelwald a pureblood?

It's difficult to find out anything about Grindelwald, as there is very little information about Gellert Grindelwald's past. However, by some evidence, it can well be concluded that he was in-fact a pure blood.
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How can 2 Muggles have a wizard child?

It's not depended on any criteria, it mainly depends on gene A wizard have to born with the magic gene regardless of their parents. Those born to Muggle families but who are skilled with and have the magic gene are referred to as Muggle-borns. A child born with magic to two Muggle parents is considered a Muggle-born.
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Is Newt a pureblood?

It is unknown if Newt is pure-blood or half-blood, as his father's blood status is unknown. According to Dumbledore, Newt does not seek power and simply asks, "what is right?" His patronus is unknown as, according to JK Rowling, is a secret.
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Is McGonagall a pure-blood?

Professor Minerva McGonagall, O.M. (First Class), was a Scottish half-blood witch, the only daughter of Muggle Robert McGonagall and witch Isobel Ross.
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How is a squib born?

A Squib was a human who had at least one magical parent, but did not inherit magic from said parent. A wizard or witch child would typically show signs of magical abilities by seven years old; any child who did not was very likely a Squib, though they were possibly late-bloomers.
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