[HPforGrownups] Why do 'purebloods' hate Muggles?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 47304


Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 7:10:45 PM, chthonia9 wrote:

c> Maybe all the Death Eaters were motivated by various individual 
c> combinations of lust for power, desire to offset their own sense of 
c> insignificance by aligning themselves to a powerful, directive force, 
c> or destructive urges to wreak mayhem.  But throughout the books 
c> there's this constant emphasis on bloodlines, and while we do get
c> a reason why Riddle/Voldemort would hate Muggles, and hence direct 
c> his movement that way, there also seems to a more general prejudice 
c> (expressed most forcefully by the Malfoys), and I can't really
c> see where its roots might be.

I think maybe they're remembering all those centuries that Muggles
persecuted Witches and Wizards, and they can't let bygones be bygones.
Maybe they even fear a return of "The Burning Times" if their
existance became generally known to 21st century Muggles.  I even
imagine their hatred for "half-bloods" and "Muggle-lovers" (including
in the carnal sense) is because they see them as "Uncle Toms".  And
Muggle-borns are probably seen as "freaks", like two villiage idiots
giving birth to an Einstein, or something.

And it helps to have a demagogue like Voldy who can convince his
followers that Muggles are behind all the Wizarding World's problems,
just as Hitler preached that Jews were responsible for all the
problems in 1930's - 40's Germany.

-- 
Dave