[HPforGrownups] Potterverse Racism, & technology (Was: Why do 'purebloods' hate Muggles?)

[James P. Robinson III]

No: HPFGUIDX 47773

As the clock struck 12:00 AM 12/2/2002 +0000, chthonia9 took pen in hand 
and wrote:
>I'm intrigued that no-one has taken up the last point I was
>trying to
>make:  Given that a major theme in the books is that racism and
>prejudice are stupid and wrong, isn't this somewhat contradicted
>by
>the ways character traits seem to run in families in the
>Potterverse?  Although one might expect there to be family cultures
>which would make sibling/offspring entry into the same school House
>more likely, even at eleven years old I'd expect individual
>traumas,
>sibling rivalries etc to have produced differing motivational
>drives.  (Should Percy Weasley not have been a Slytherin? ;-)  But it
>seems that bloodlines do indeed have a significance


This is a large part of the point I was trying to make in my posts under 
the "Classist Hogwarts" re line.

                                                         Jim