Voldemort's Campaign

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44255

Just to insert my own interpretation into the mix...

My own take on the Voldemort/pureblood question is that Riddle himself 
doesn't give a squat about halfbloods. He dispises Muggles (with perhaps some 
good reason. We know nothing about that orphanage he was raised in) and he 
extends this loathing to Muggle-borns. "Wizards" on the other hand, are NOT 
on the "other hand", he resents them like poison. He made up his mind in his 
teens that he was going to see to it that every wizard in the world was going 
to fear to speak his name. And I don't think he cares whether those wizards 
are pureblood or half-blood.

But we also have pretty strong evidence that he is more than willing to use 
other people's prevailing prejudices to further his own interests. (I've 
already made my statement about how he used the ww's anti-giant bias to his 
own advantage when he chose to frame Hagrid.) So he will talk the "pureblood" 
talk to his followers, since they seem to expect that sort of thing. But 
there does seem to be a certain "canned" quality to his rhetoric on that 
subject, doesn't there? I don't think I am imagining it.

-JOdel