Blood purity (Harry Potter)

Blood purity is a concept in the fictional Harry Potter book series. It is a form of class prejudice and also has analogies to racism.

Importance in series

J K Rowling has been questioned on the importance of blood purity in the Harry Potter books. In a news-round interview discussing book four, http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/blood-status-names.html,

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she said:

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From the beginning of Philosopher's Stone, prejudice is a very strong theme. It is plausible that Harry enters the world wide-eyed: everything will be wonderful and it's the sort of place where injustices don't happen. Then he finds out that it does happen and it's a shock to him. He finds out that he is a half-blood: to a wizard like Lucius Malfoy, he will never be a true wizard, because his mother was of muggle parentage. It's a very important theme.

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