Why do 'purebloods' hate Muggles?

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47350

Throwing my own two cents into the mix... 

I suspect that the *real* underlying reason that certain 'purebloods' are so 
vehemently anti-Muggle, is that Muggles produce Muggle-born wizards. 

Yes, there is a certain type of pureblood who goes in for Muggle-baiting. 
(Chiefly because they CAN.) I also suspect that most of them are fairly young 
when they take up that little pastime, do it in groups -- never one-on-one -- 
and ultimately grow out of it. (Except when an opportunity offers itself 
which is altogether too good to pass up.) But the real resentment over 
Muggles is because Muggles are the source of those damned mudblood wizards 
who are next to impossible to keep out, because those Muggle-loving fools 
like Dumbledore keep supporting and including them.

Consider; If there were no Muggle-born magical children, there would be no 
reason for the two worlds ever to meet, unless there are specific trades 
which deal with Muggle-produced products. And for that, there is no reason to 
inform one's trading partners of what your abilities might be. The rest of 
the WW can just shut them out and *forget* about them.

But as long as the Muggle population keeps throwing mudbloods, you have to 
identify the brats, and monitor them to make sure the rest of the pack 
doesn't get suspicious, and then *educate* them so they can keep their magic 
under control. And then they want jobs that would better be given to your own 
kids! 

And for every mudblood there must be at least a half-dozen Muggles who *know* 
that the wizarding world exists. And you can't just obliviate the lot of them 
"because they are *family*!" for Merlin's sale. A walking nightmare of a 
security breech -- to say nothing of their pernitious ideas which the brats 
introduce into the Schools, and then it starts getting into the Ministry 
policy. Puh-leese!

-JOdel 
(Who also suspects that after living among Muggles for centuries, never 
knowing when their neighbors were going to suddenly turn on them and start 
howling for their blood, Wizards secluded themselves into their own world the 
minute magical technology allowed them to do so -- in 1697[?]. And that, 
consequently, the mindset regarding "Muggles" held by most purebloods is, 
therefore, about 300 years out of date. Allow me to say that the end of the 
17th century was NOT Western Civilization's finest hour...)