[HPforGrownups] Salazar & Slytherin(was Re: Draco and Slytherin House (was: Harsh Morality)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 121686

>Betsy:
> <snip>
>I've come to believe that Voldemort's pureblood schtick is just 
>that, schtick.  He hates and despises Muggles, so those wizards big
> on Muggle-baiting would have attracted him.<
> 
> 
> Betsy:
> Oh, I don't doubt that the DEs are all over the pureblood stuff, 
> hence Bellatrix's shock and horror at Harry's big reveal.  But I 
> wonder if it's seriously Voldemort's big thing.  I do think he sees
> anyone not him as tainted and inferior.  


I think Betsy's got a good point.  No doubt the DE's are motivated by
muggle-born and half-blood hatred and jump on any opportunity to
terrorize them whenever they can.  

But I think you can make a good case that Voldemort is
anti-everybody, an equal-opportunity hater, if you will.  It's hard
to see what particular animus he mind have against muggle-borns and
half-bloods, although a life-long distaste for spoiled brat rich boys
who leave their pregnant wives/girlfriends is certainly
understandable.

A evil overlord needs henchman and the dumber henchmen, the better. 
The racist purebloods have a pretty simple hatred that he can
manipulate to get them to do what he wants for his own purposes,
which include his own personal rule. 

Voldemort has an agenda, and everything in his life - including
whatever prejudices he indulges in - is secondary to advancing that
agenda.

Magda

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