[HPforGrownups] Comparisons

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 89838

Frost wrote:
>  Yes it is.  However, Cromwell, whether or not his ends justified
>his means, did work to lift the yoke of the nobles from the masses.
>Voldie, admitedly by his own followers, and himself, wishes to
>saddle the masses (there are a lot more muggle born and half-muggles
>than pure-bloods) with the nobility.  While we must accept a certain

I'm not actually sure what Voldemort might intend for the "commoner" element
in the WW, so long as they didn't stand in his way, though I agree that he'd
want to put his loyalists in the positions of power and say "have some fun",
the kind of way that warlords and terrorists do when they come to power. The
numbers of wizards who have a muggle parent has to be fairly small - JKR has
told us that they make up a quarter of the Hogwarts students and I'm of the
view that the total number of students at Hogwarts is a very small
proportion indeed of the total number of children in the WW. If you go back
and count the number of grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, then
obviously the proportion of non-purebloods rises dramatically, as Ron points
out in CoS. It still leaves open exactly how far you have to go back to be
considered a pureblood (and I think your characterisation of them as
"nobility" is quite right) - Ernie MacMillan has nine generations of wizard
ancestors in CoS and he's still nervous (if you assume that wizards have
double the lifespan of muggles and therefore a WW generation is twice that
in our world, then he's talking about wizard ancestry going back 540 years)!

Cheers

Ffred

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