[HPforGrownups] Re: Prejudice

[Random]

No: HPFGUIDX 70123


On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 09:00 America/Indianapolis, darrin_burnett 
wrote:

> Lucius and others' reaction has been translated to "filthy blood."
> Literally, they aren't fit to even have a chance, and not fit to live.
>
> So, historical truth or not, how that prejudice has evolved and
> become even more perverted is unacceptable and unjustifiable.

That could easily be a mistranslation based on people who are 
"prejudiced" against the people who dislike them... it immediately 
struck _me_ as nothing more but a contraction of "Muggle blood" and a 
snappy bit of rhyming slang (correct me if british english does not 
have "mud" rhyming roughly with "blood") It also happens to flow off 
the tongue a bit easier than any other possible contraction of said 
two-word phrase.

--Random832, reminding you all to ALWAYS consider the source

oh, wait, there's more... ^^;;

Darrin also wrote:

> We've seen a fifth-year Hogwarts student come up with a spell that
> causes incredible pain when someone rats out a group.

not pain... humiliation... she didn't notice it let alone clam up until 
she saw it in the mirror.

> And doing so means they couldn't bring down a house full of Exploding
> Snape cards, much less the entire Wizard World.

...Exploding Snape... sounds a bit freudian to me.

> And there are still the sticky problems of the Basilisk and the
> modern-day philosophy of "kill the Mudblood" espoused by the villains.

The basilisk stayed in its chamber for over 900 years without killing 
any "mudbloods".

> I think self-defense is a reach, to say the least.

But, consider that they're perhaps not worried about attack from 
muggles, but from the muggle-born wizards _themselves_. Regardless of 
if they can defend themselves against muggles, can they defend 
themselves of a single or even a large group of muggle-born wizards who 
justify their own magic as "carrying out God's will" eliminating the 
rest.

--Random832.