PC Wizards? was Re: Hags

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115231


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bee Chase 
<luckdragon64 at y...> wrote:
> I know there has been some speculation that Doris Umbridge 
may be a Hag. Though she seems to dislike non purebloods, 
like Voldemort, I think she doth protest too much. I think it more 
likely that muggle children be threatened with the old hag tale. It 
would probably be politically incorrect in the wizarding world.
> 

It appears wizards don't give a blithering snorkack about politcal 
correctness.

-A dozen or so trolls began to smash apart the chamber with 
their clubs, while hags glided about the place in search of 
children to eat-- Bathilda Bagshot, *A History of Magic* quoted in 
FBAWTFT p xi.

Perhaps someone would like to compose a politically correct 
version of that passage?  (Attempts to OT-Chatter, please)

As things stand, I don't think wizards will ever go into political 
correctness in a big way. They are unlikely to conceive of an 
egalitarian society as anything more than a utopian dream, since 
they lack the tools to construct one. Unlike Colt's pistols, 
Ollivander's wands do not make men equal. Even Gryffindor 
morality is based on chivalry, the concept that the strong should 
protect the weak, which is not egalitarian at all.

Pippin