[HPforGrownups] Re: Dating Muggleborns(was: Where does it say that Molly is a pureblood fanatic

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125290

> Marissa:
> I don't think that Molly thought she was a heartless muggleborn
> slut 
> because she was muggleborn. This was only because she thought.. 
> Hermione had broken Harry's heart.Do you really think that it would
> have made much difference if Hermione was a pureblood witch and
> this 
> article had shown up? If you notice in the beginning of the third 
> book, Molly is on perfectly friendly terms with Hermione, with the 
> three of them giggling over a love potion in PoA. Hermione and
> Molly seem to get along fine, and I think if Molly had any real 
> bigotry it 
> would've shown beyond the fact that one time when she thought 
> Hermione had used Harry.


Yes, but the question is: why was Molly so willing to believe that
the Hermione that she knew was this heartless jade that Skeeter
described?  I don't think Molly is prejudiced against Muggles or
muggleborns (not like the Blacks and the Malfoys) but why was she so
willing to believe the worst of a girl that she already knew and
liked?

Possible answer: because when it comes to muggles and muggleborns,
she's willing to view them with greater suspicion because she feels
that they are in some way - different - from wizards, from people
"like her".  It's not a hostility, it's not dislike - it's just that
at some level inside she still thinks they're not predictable or
rational or whatever.

She's definitely got an old-fashioned view about the divisions in the
WW, and she doesn't really mingle much outside her own small family
sphere.  This lack of familiarity means that she's vulnerable to the
kind of hurtful attitude that she displays towards Hermione in GOF.

Magda


		
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