Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. (But not sympathetic)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124711


Naamagatus wrote:
"Seeing as the DEs are the equivalent of the Nazi SS or Gestapo, I
don't see how they could be depicted as other than totally black. 
Unlike Slytherin house (to which children are sorted), these are
adults who deliberately embrace an ideology of hatred, racism and
cruelty, and who carry out this ideology at every opportunity they can. "

Del replies:
First I don't think that all the Nazi SS or Gestapo were totally
black, so I don't see how fictional characters loosely based on them
could be totally black either.

Second, the ideology of hatred, racism and cruelty exists in the WW at
large. Racism towards the non-magical Muggles, and towards the
non-human and yet sentient Merpeople, Centaurs, House-Elves, and so
on. Hatred against the werewolves (who are still humans most of the
time), or the Giants, and so on. And cruelty against the House-Elves,
the Merpeople, the Centaurs, the Giants, and even the Muggles
(Muggle-baiting is not something that only the DEs do, and I don't
think there were only DEs in that crowd misbehaving at the Quidditch
Cup). Hatred, racism and cruelty are integral parts of the WW. The DEs
just take them further than most wizards, they take it to some
interestingly logical conclusions: if being non-magical makes you
inferior, then being the child of non-magical people should also make
you inferior. After all, the wizards don't care about what the Muggles
can achieve, they only care about which people they don't belong to.
So similarly, the DEs don't care about what the Muggleborns can do,
they only care about which people they belong to. And the Muggleborns
do not entirely belong to the WW: by birth, they also belong to the
Muggle world. Once the WW stops thinking that being a Muggle makes you
inferior, the DEs will stop thinking that being Muggleborn also makes
you inferior.

Del