The half-bloods are also left to their own devices for the most part, but they don’t have it quite as good. On one hand, they can marry almost anyone they want. They aren’t given too much grief for marrying a mudblood, and a pureblood is allowed to condescend to marry them, since the child of a pureblood and a half-blood is technically a pureblood. However, the purebloods generally get less grief if they have a child with another pureblood first, so not many choose that route. The bad part is that any Death Eater and any well-connected pureblood can take any half-blood he (and it usually is a he) wants for a night or three and get away with it.