That "racist" Harry Potter

[babelfisherperson]

No: HPFGUIDX 31528

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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!

Plus, you've got people like Filch, who have wizard parents but can't 
do magic themselves. Not much of a "genetic elite", if some children 
with muggle parents can become wizards, and some "pure-bloods" can't.

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