Anti-Muggleborn prejudice (was Mudbloods and Marriage)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 30569

Jim (responding to Professor Phil in his Endowed Muggle Chair) wrote:

> Once again, Rowling is presenting an important point with subtlety 
> not seen in "children's" literature.  She's showing us how 
universal 
> prejudice is, the dark side in all humans, and thereby also 
> underlining the humanity of wizards. She's doing the same with the 
> class system, including that just because one of the "lower 
classes" 
> (house elves) are used to their station in life, that doesn't make 
it 
> okay.

Yes, we've seen lots of prejudice in the wizarding world, and it's 
not pretty.  But is it universal in the wizarding world?  Harry seems 
to harbor no prejudice, but he might actually be alone in this.

Even Dumbledore shows us something that could be construed as 
prejudice.  He doesn't like or trust the dementors.  Not just some 
dementors; all dementors.  For some reason, I'm inclined to think 
this is something other than prejudice, but I can't figure out why I 
feel that way.  Maybe as Phil points out, Dumbledore isn't pre-
judging the dementors, but he understands their mission and has 
experience with them sufficient to know how they are used.  He isn't 
wary of dementors per se; he is just wary of the way MoM uses them.  

Cindy (hoping Phil understands she is just teasing about the Muggle 
Chair thing)