[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood & predjudice... Reason or Excuse? You be the Judge.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 150411

--- Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> While Voldemort, in his own sick deranged way, does believe in the
> nobility of wizard blood, it is both illusion and delusion. Much
> like the extreme fanatical Muslims, Voldemort's extreme pureblood
> philosophy is not the reason but the /excuse/ for his actions. 


Does he really?  I don't get the impression that Voldemort has much
love for pureblood wizards, either.  In fact, I personally think that
all that purebloodism is just a sop to the group of not-too-bright
thugs that he initially persuaded to support him and who make up the
recruiting pool that he fishes in ever afterwards.  

I mean, if you're going to launch a takeover, you need some thugs and
supporters.  You've got to find a group whose prejudices you can
discern and whose hot buttons you can press so you can control them. 
If they're a bunch of losers like the maternal family you discovered,
it's pretty easy to get them to do your bidding by telling them how
hard-done-by they are by all the sellouts in the upper echalons of
the WW.  They're dumb enough to believe it.

Of course you run the risk of getting a Lucius Malfoy who's brighter
than the others but as long as you don't wipe your feet on him and
let him look good in front of the others, he's probably open to being
handled.  (That Voldemort seems to have forgotten this in HBP shows a
dangerous lack of judgement IMO.)

No, I think the pureblood hype is just recruitment bumpf as far as
Voldemort is concerned.  

Magda

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