"M**blood" and handicap

[Erica Sadun]

No: HPFGUIDX 106472

>| Sherry:
>| Perhaps, back in the days of the four founders, Gryffindor was very 
>| unusual in his support of muggle born students.  If the mud blood 
>| thing is supposed to represent racism, then I think there could very
>| well be some not so pretty history behind it.

Lee:
>Absolutely, I'd bet my last knut on that.
>
>Whenever I see that scene in GOF at the QWC and the torture done to the
>Roberts family, etc., my brain screams "KKK!"...or other such group.  
>Sadly, prejudice is a hard, practically impossible beasty to kill.


Which makes it so disturbing that Rowling chose to use Magen Davids to
indicate pure-blood students in the notebooks which were captured as
screen shots from the "Harry and Me" BBC special.

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