Social Structure in the WW (was:Re: Hero types / Why Snape must...)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152093

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> Betsy Hp:
> Money really doesn't count in this sort of social system, I think.  
> Middle class Hermione is seen as being on the same level as the 
> working class Creeveys and the upper class Justin.  They are, all of 
> them, muggleborn.  And sure, it hasn't affected them while they're 
> at Hogwarts (except for their inability to study to the same effect 
> as their wizarding classmates over the holidays) but I'm near 
> positive it will effect them when they go looking for work.  
> Especially within the Ministry. 

Pippin:
Will it? It sounds like you're describing the 19th century system
of promotion satirized by Mark Twain and Gilbert & Sullivan, where 
blood was all and merit was nothing. But it sounds like this system has
collapsed  because otherwise Draco would have just rolled his eyes 
at Lucius's comment and said, "Yes, frightfully keen, I'm afraid." 
She wouldn't be a threat. Merit does count for something apparently.
Malfoy and his ilk are reactionaries, not defenders of the status
quo, IMO. They don't like the changes and want things back the way 
they were.


It's possible that Percy abandoned his interest in muggleborn Penelope,
and I've wondered myself whether Molly will really be pleased
to put Muriel's tiara on Hermione's head, but Penelope's name
suggests that Percy will come back to her eventually.

Muggleborn males don't seem to have trouble finding mates, as far as
I can see. Ted Tonks landed himself a pureblood and so did 
Tobias Snape.

Pippin