Good blood/bad blood (was Greatest Fear/greatest Hope)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121413


Alla wrote:
"I am sorry, but I disagree in a sense that I don't see very large 
spectrum here. They all support the idea of pureblood superiority and
those who go to serve Voldie support genocide. That's about it, right?"

Del replies:
Yes, but how many of those who agree with the pureblood superiority
ideology support LV's idea of genocide? Sirius's parents, evil as they
were, didn't. I would say it's a minority who go from "purebloods are
best" to "let's kill all Muggles and Muggleborns".

Alla wrote:
"The key part TO ME is pure blood superiority, which all Slytherins
seem to support (Boy, oh boy, I hope not :o)) and then it evolves to
its ugliest form - genocide."

Del replies:
I see several problems here.

First, as you hope, it is possible that not all Slytherins support the
pureblood ideology.

Second, it is possible that some non-Slytherins do support this
ideology, at least to some extent.

Third, the evolution into genocide is far from being automatic. There
are many people out there in RL who wouldn't let their children marry
people from such or such background, but who wish those people all the
best otherwise. It's a very common attitude : "I love X people (pick
your "favourite") : I have many X friends, we visit each other often,
we go on holidays together. My boss and one of my co-workers are X,
and I love working with them, they're great people. My neighbours are
X, and we regularly invite each other over for dinner, we take care of
each other's pets when we go for the week-end, our children play
together. But hey, I wouldn't let my daughter marry one of *them*."
Those people would *never* agree with an idea of eliminating all X
people, even though they *do* believe that they are inherently better
than X people.

Alla wrote:
"Sorry, but I am not buying leaving basilisk in school to scare Muggle
 borns only. :o) 

And Murttle did die. Why do you say that more people could not die 
because of Basilisk? "

Del replies:
Many reasons :
- too many attacks would more likely lead to the school being closed
down than to the Muggleborns leaving it
- the culprit would be found before he had time to kill all Muggleborns
- the tightened security after the first attacks would make it very
hard to conduct any further attacks

Tom Riddle was a fanatic, and yet he killed "only" one Muggleborn.
Ginny was possessed by someone who couldn't care less about her, and
she didn't manage to kill anyone. OK, her victims were lucky. But had
the first couple of attacks been more "successful", the school would
have been closed down, which would have put an end to the attacks.

Del