[HPforGrownups] Re: That "racist" Harry Potter

[Calypso8604 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 31506

In a message dated 12/13/2001 2:20:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Joanne0012 at aol.com writes:


> 
> "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."
> 


Really...I suppose the writer hasn't read any part including Hermione. 
Honestly..."powers are handed down the generations from parents to 
children"...::rolls eyes::

The only people readers really despise are the villianous characters such as 
the Dursleys, Voldemort, and Wormtail (whom I happen to actually like, but 
that's not the point). Clearly its not limited to muggles.

I swear, these people who write about the supposed racism and evils of books 
are narrow-minded, and therefore hypocrites.

Calypso


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