Prejudices

[khilari2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 95125

I was thinking about this and it seemed worth posting to see what 
other people think. In the wizarding world there appear to be two 
distinct types of prejudice. Prejudice against muggles, which, due to 
its link with LV, is non PC in the WW currently. Also there is 
prejudice against half-humans, which appears to be semi-official if 
Umbridge is anything to go by.

So I was wondering about how the two are linked and it seemed 
*possible* that both could have begun with the splitting of the 
muggle world from the WW. If muggle borns were now entering the WW 
with no prior knowledge of the existence of half-humans then one 
possible reaction would be disgust. Admittedly this does not seem the 
case with those muggle borns we have met at Hogwarts and prejudice 
against half-humans is widespread among wizards, if the reaction to 
Rita Skeeters article on Hagrid is anything to go by, but I'm talking 
about how this got started. If until then half-humans had been 
accepted, then wizards with non-human blood or half-human friends 
would have been highly indignant at being objected to, and perhaps 
decided that muggle borns should not be allowed to enter the WW if 
they were going to object to some of the people in it. Others would 
have pointed out that not all muggle borns were like that, and they 
deserved a chance.

At Hogwarts perhaps Salazar Slytherin took one view while the other 
three founders took the other. Someone (I forget who, or I'd credit) 
pointed out that his statue looks as if it could be part goblin, so 
he could have felt he was objecting to people who objected to him.

Khilari - who wishes she knew more about the history of the WW.