That "racist" Harry Potter

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 31496

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ftah3" <ftah3 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Did the scribe of that article not read the books?  Maybe he just saw 
> the movie?  Or has a selective memory?  *shrug*

I think you've hit the nail on the head.  The article says in part:

"Harry and his friends are members of an elite. They are not a race, but their 
powers are handed down the generations from parents to children. The skills 
must be inherited before they are developed with teaching at Hogwarts. The 
reader quickly identifies with this genetic elite, the wizards such as Harry, 
and despises the talentless, boorish muggles."

There really are too few muggles in the books for us to develop any racist 
attitudes towards them.  Indeed, Harry, the book's protagonist, has a 
muggle-born parent and one of his two best friends is also muggle born.  The 
muggle-hating Death Eaters and the racists at Slytherin are the bad guys, as 
far as I can tell!