[HPforGrownups] Re: evil Slytherin

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 1851

Kelley wrote:

> Why?  Just
> because he wanted only 'pure-bloods' and the rest (GG, HH, RR) wanted
> to allow muggle-borns too?  Could that be all there was to it?

That's a hell of an "all." That's pretty much all there ever is to all the
various attempts at genocide. It involves a very basic human tribal pattern,
Us/Them, and a very, very basic human personal pattern, Power To Me. When
those ingrained thought/behavior patters get intertwined, they become Power
To Us---which all too often becomes Non-Power [or worse] to Them. And
because of the Us/Them psychological thing, those who disagree, even if they
once were friends, eventually are perceived as threats, enemies, danger.
Defend Us! (how? with Power To Me/Us, via removing it from Them) it's an
icky spiral.

--Amanda