Scapegoating Slytherin (was:Punishing Draco )

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 143972

> 
> Slytherin blood ideology reminds me very uncomfortably of the old 
> (and not so old) admissions criteria of the Ivies.  Deliberately 
> slanted to admit those who went to the approved prep schools and 
came 
> from the proper families; modified to keep it that way when too 
many 
> Jews were being admitted because they were allowing merit too much 
> weight in the system.  Women--absolutely right out.  Priority given 
> to the children of alumni, which creates the legacy system.  
William 
> Buckley complained bitterly about Yale ceasing to become the kind 
of 
> place where your whole family went, and thought it was ridiculous 
> that some boy from P.S. 12 somewhere had equal chances as someone 
> from Andover.
> 
> Do I think that way of thinking about people is evil?  Solidly in 
the 
> ordinary vices, and the kind of cancer which does profound damage 
to 
> a society as a whole.
> 
> -Nora notes there's good readin' out there on that subject
>
The pure-blood snobbishness of the Wizarding World reminds me not of 
the Old-Boyism of the British and Ivy-League educational systems, but 
of Germany and the NAZI Party. The parallels are remarkable--WWI and 
WWII, the pure-blood perception that Muggles, mud-bloods, and even 
mixed-blood Wizards are somehow infra dig (and the belief of extreme 
cases that Muggles and mud-bloods at least are subhuman and should be 
destroyed), the Aryan blondness of the Malfoys, a leader (fuhrer?) so 
powerful and so vile that most of the Wizarding World won't even 
speak his name... And if you want to *really* creep yourself out, 
take a look at the SS Gestapo insignia. (Ever wonder where JKR got 
Harry's scar?)

And we're sitting here asking ourselves if this kind of thinking is 
*evil*? Earth to HPfGU...

--La Gatta


--La Gatta