Pureblood
Authors Note: I am very sorry for the delay on Small Changes. Time has become an issue, being newly employed. I have had this around for awhile hope it helps a bit with the wait. I have no idea on JKR's definition of Pureblood, I just made up my own.
This is just a little side story to Small Changes. As usual I own nothing, make no money, so on and so forth.
Ask any pureblood exactly what a pureblood is and they will tell you that it means there are no Muggles in their family tree. That is not exactly true. If it was then very few such families would exist, even fewer than the Pureblood families of today.
After years of political maneuvering it was finally agreed upon that legally a Pureblood would be a person whose family can be traced back at least Six generations without finding any non-wizard blood. Non-Wizard blood, now that small statement has messed up a few families. Many assume this to mean Muggles. What it actually means is just that, Non-Wizard. Some families have married Muggles, Veela, Giants, Banshees; the list is colorful and widely varied.
The following chapters give an example of just a few of those families that this distinction held up pureblood status. The truth is most of these Families started out as Muggleborns. Something they will never admit.