Muggleborns choosing WW (was: Why did the founders retain Slytherin's house?)

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 15 21:26:22 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 117934


> SSSusan:
> From a purely practical standpoint, I can't imagine many Muggle-
born 
> witch-or-wizards *not* wanting to join the WW. 

snip.

> And if after said witch-or-wizard "got to" the WW, s/he discovered 
> problematic aspects of it, what's the difference between that and 
the 
> RW?  There is racism, tyranny, hatred, an AIDS epidemic, economic 
> inequity, and all manner of other depressing problems in the RW.  I 
> don't see any difference, really, in the sense that there are 
> problems in both worlds.  If one is unhappy with things in *either* 
> world, they can be addressed in the same manner:  work for change.
> 


Alla:

Oh, I agree very much Susan, I think that advantages for muggleborns 
joining WW are much greater than for them to stay away.

What I am still not getting the satisfactory (for me ) answer is 
whether it is possible that non-human species did not want to do much 
with humans at all in the first place? And accordingly it went 
downhill from there. I am not saying that it was non-humans fault, 
but could it be that they started it?

If it is racism of humans, then so be it and it definitely needs to 
be changed at the end of the series, IMO, but what if it is started 
as something different?

I suppose it still could be racism, even if started differently.

What is your opinion on this one?







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