Ron Week: Prejudices - a question

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No: HPFGUIDX 16258

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> I'm just wondering something....
> 
> Andrea wrote:
> 
> > --- Penny wrote:
> >
> > > He seems
> > > a bit too ready to
> > > judge people based on preconceived notions -- giants
> > > & house-elves for
> > > example.
> >
> > Harry and Hermione didn't grow up in wizard families
> > and therefore don't have the usual prejudices.  If H&H
> > had been talking to Neville or Seamus, for example,
> > the conversation might've gone much the same way.
> >
> 
> Just a question I'm tossing out here:
> How many of you who forgive Ron's prejudices about giants and house 
elves because "he grew up in a wizarding family" would be willing to 
(a) consider the genesis of Draco's seeming prejudices against muggle-
born witches & wizards, and (b)
> forgive him those?

Prejudice becomes vicious when it is coupled with hate. Ron's 
prejudice against giants, house-elves and werewolves is not a good 
thing to have. But, unlike Draco's prejudice against muggle-born 
wizards, it is not expressed in the context of murderous attacks on 
innocent members of these groups.


Naama