Template:Guide/Species and Blood Status

Blood status applies to a normal witch or wizard.
 * Pure-blood is the term for wizards and witches who have a purely or approximately pure magical heritage. This means that there are no Muggles in their family trees, but this is rarely, if ever, true if families are traced back all the way, for if wizards didn't mate with Muggles, their race would die out.
 * Half-blood is the term commonly given to wizards and witches who have a Muggle/Muggle-born parent and magical parent. By the 1990s, half-bloods were the most common type of magical person, as the wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.
 * Muggle-born is the term given to a witch or wizard who is born to two non-magical parents. Their magical abilities do not seem to be at all affected by their Muggle parentage.

There are also different species in the Harry Potter series and characters can either be a half-breed of that species, meaning they have ancestors or parents with that species' blood or be a full-member of the species.


 * Dwarf: A short, stocky humanoid creature.
 * Giant: A very large humanoid which can potentially grow to approximately twenty feet tall and appear to be a large human. Some may appear as large and hairy humanoids, while others resemble humongous-sized people, and some may even have bestial features (i.e. protuding sharp molars).
 * Goblin: A highly intelligent race of small hominids with long fingers and feet that coexist with the wizard world. Their diet consists of meat, roots and fungi.
 * Hag: A savage being that looks like an ugly, old witch but has more warts.
 * House-elf: A house-elf (sometimes also referred to as just elves) is a magical creature which is immensely devoted and loyal to the one designated as their master. They serve wizards and witches and are usually found under the employment of old wizarding families taking residence in elaborate establishments, like mansions, and must do everything that their masters command unless they are freed.
 * Vampire: An immortal species that feeds on blood.
 * Veela: A species that usually takes the form of a very beautiful woman, but men can be part-veela as well. Easily angered, very attractive to the opposite gender and can turn into a harpy if full veela.
 * Werewolf: A species that changes into a wolf every full moon.