Hitler Alive! ...Student Dead!

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115567


> > Pippin:
> >  The rap on Muggleborns and Halfbloods is that they can't be 
> > trusted, so pointing out that the notorious criminal Voldemort 
is a halfblood isn't going to do the halfblood cause any good. To 
 most of  the wizards, even the purebloods like Sirius's parents, 
 Voldemort is no longer regarded as a  hero and  DE recruitment 
 isn't voluntary this time around,  according to Sirius.  Voldemort 
 isn't passing out leaflets, he's using tricks, jinxes and blackmail
 -- at least on his fellow wizards. 
> 
> Magda again:
> 
> Welll, it would show that Voldemort is lying and that this scary
> bogey-man image that he's created for himself and that the 
wizarding world fears so much is nothing but a lie. <

Pippin:
But it isn't a lie! Voldemort really is a powerful dark wizard who 
holds life very cheaply and kills without a second thought and he 
is going to be yet greater and more terrible than before. He's a 
story-book villain to *us*, but to the WW people he's very real.

Dumbledore is not denying that Voldemort is scary when he tries 
to get people to say  "Voldemort" , he's trying to get people to 
accept that there's this powerful scary dark wizard that's loose, 
and the WW is going to  have to deal with it, so please let's not 
be afraid to use his name. 

 Magda:
> And I don't think that halfbloods would suddenly become the 
focus of irrational WW suspicion or dislike.<

Pippin:
They're *already*  the focus of irrational WW suspicion or dislike, 
going back to Salazar Slytherin. 
JKR, on her website :
----
The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have 
been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and 
express their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like 
Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 
'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore, Harry would be considered only 
'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents. 
----

I just don't think Dumbledore would present himself as 
somebody to whom those distinctions matter. As Voldemort's  
lies go, it's not a very important one. Wizards who are joining 
Voldemort at the present time in the story already know that he's 
an outlaw, a dark wizard, and a murderer. Would they really be 
put off to discover he's a liar and a hypocrite too?

Pippin