The good Slytherin - Shades of Grey

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No: HPFGUIDX 131410


> Magda:
>  
> The line is drawn where thought becomes action.  Hate is not 
illegal
> (although I would argue that we have no proof that Slyths in 
general
> hate halfbloods and muggles, you're just assuming they do).
> 
Alla:

I am assuming based on Slytherins I met  in the books so far.
 
 
> Alla earlier:
> > > Moreover, I think that it is very telling that on her website 
> JKR 
> > > compares calling people "half-bloods" etc with what natzi did 
to 
> > > jews.
> 
> Magda: 
> > I don't think that's the exact quote.  
 
 
Alla:
 
That was not a quote at all, that was paraphrasing.
 
Here is the exact quote.
 
"Why are some people in the wizarding world (e.g., Harry) 
called 'half-blood' even though both their parents were magical?
 
 
The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have 
been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express 
their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy 
is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. 
Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of 
his mother's grandparents.
 
If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts 
the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I 
saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already 
devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' 
definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely 
the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish 
grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."
 

> Magda : 
> > You think he left it behind?  Not at all; Sirius rejected their
> > beliefs but he had a great deal of Black I-can-do-what-I-want
> > attitude which led to his most egregious mistakes.
 
 
Alla:
 
I would like to see more proof on Sirius being proud of being a 
Black, if you don't mind. We have a proof  that he was not proud of 
his family ( namely him leaving his family behind and never looking 
back). I don't see any proof to the contrary.


Just wanted to add that it also very telling to me that the most 
sympathetically portrayed "pureblood" family in the books so far    
( IMO anyway) is the one whom wisarding society 
calls "bloodtraitors". 
 
JMO,

Alla.