[HPforGrownups] In defense of the Working Class, was Re: Work after Hogwarts?

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26694

    In all justice to the Wizarding World the Malfoys
are the only denizens thereof to exibit snobbish
classism.
   At Hogwarts the gamekeeper eats at the high table
along with the teachers, (and probably the custodian
too if he likes). Cornelius Fudge has no problem
sharing a drink with Hagrid and readily invites Madame
Rosmerta to join them. Nor does she hesitate to
complain to the minister about dementors driving away
her business. Fudge may be overly impressed by old
wealth and 'pure blood' but he doesn't seem to look
down on working class wizards, nor does anybody else
except, predictably, the Malfoys.

--- Joy M <joym999 at aol.com> wrote:

>  (If  political comments were allowed on this list
we
> could speculate that 
> family connections might even allow someone with
limited intellectual 
> abilities to become president, 

    Or somebody with poor people skills and a slight
disconnect from reality to become a senator, vice
president and a presidental candidate. People who live
in glass houses....

 we don't really know anything about Crabbe
> and Goyle's 
> families except that their fathers, or mothers, or
> both, are death 
> eaters and friends of the Malfoy's.  For all we
> know, Crabbe, Sr. 
> shovels manure on the Malfoy's Pig Farm and Goyle,
> Sr. is the janitor 
> at the MoM.  

    Good point. From what little we see of them in GoF
Crabbe and Goyle Sr. seem to be as big and dim as
their sons and large, stupid people might belong to
any social class. 

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