Scene with likeable James WAS: Re: Eileen Pince

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 156399

> Kemper:
> I haven't read the Death Eater's mission statement, but I'm pretty
> sure it doesn't state anything about pledging to drive out
> Muggleborns.  Now, that might be the agenda of some within that 
Dark
> Order (Bellatrix, Lucius), but not all.

a_svirn:
Well, if you haven't read their mission statement how can you 
be "pretty sure" that eradication of muggleborns and/or banishing 
them from the WW is not at least part of DE's reason d'etre? I'd say 
there are enough not-so-subtle hints in canon that this is one of 
their most important goals. In the PS Draco gave Harry the gist of 
the pureblood-cum-DE ideology. According to Sirius mugglefobia was 
the reason why his brother joined Voldemort. In the Graveyard Scene 
Voldemort implied that muggle-torture is the most popular sport 
among his servants. And we all were privileged to see their *vision* 
statement at the World Cup. 


>Kemper 
> Also... Snape is Muggleborn.  Voldemort is Muggleborn.  Yes, they 
both
> have witch moms.  Voldemort would not kill off a Muggleborn if 
he/she
> could serve a useful purpose.  Similarly, he wouldn't refrain from
> killing a Pureblood who has out last his/her usefulness.
> 
> Does it make sense now?
> 

a_svirn:
Er, well, I must be more than usually dim tonight, but, seriously, 
how one can be muggleborn, is their mother is a witch? Seems to me 
something is not quite right here. 
Besides, what usefulness has to do with mission statements? Politics 
is an art of the possible, as it were. Realpolitik and the higher 
goals rarely coincide.