Prejudice against Muggleborns (was:Re: Hermione's Hypocrisy?(long)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> >a_svirn:
> >Well, there is no denying that the bad guys of the Potterverse 
> don't like Muggle-borns. However, there are the good guys who do. 
> And they are greater in number.
> <snip>
> >...[Hermione's] origins didn't upset her social life. Neither are 
> her career choices affected. Even now she is a prefect and is tipped 
> to be a headgirl.  Formally she can choose whatever career path she 
> fancies.<
> <snip>
> 
> Betsy:
> Unless she wants to work at the Ministry.  Or teach at Hogwarts.  
> (Name one known Muggleborn working at either place.)  With the views 
> commonly held in the WW, even if Hermione got a job in the bottom 
> echelon of the Ministry, she couldn't hope to rise far.  And the 
> governing board would probably question the wisdom of Dumbledore 
> hiring on a Muggleborn (so ignorant of *our* ways) where she might 
> have undue influence on impressionable children.  (Dumbledore had to 
> sneak the werewolf and the half-breed past the board.)

Hm, I don't agree. As pointed out before, Remus has a very contagious,
dangerous disease. Quite natural that a lot of parents (also muggle
parents) would not be overly fond of such a child in close proximity
of their own. After all, safety measures can fail. As for the giants:
they have a very, very bad reputation for violence. 

But muggleborns? From most of the staff we don't know whether they are
pureblood, halfblood or muggleborn. For the MoM we know for a couple
of people they are. We also know that most of the wizards and witches
are not pureblood. 

Gerry