[HPforGrownups] Muggles &. Wizards & Mudbloods (Re: good and bad Slytherins/Disappointment and Responsibility/Sirius' choice)

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 175241

Christine Maupin wrote:
> I don't even view his barb about the "biggest Muggles I ever laid eyes 
> on" (does he mean the pun?) as an insult against Muggles in general -- 
> just the Dursley's in particular and that's because of their 
> non-tolerant attitude towards Wizards despite the fact there have been 
> and still is at least one Wizard in their extended family.  So, when I 
> hear a Wizard use the term Muggle, I don't automatically take it as an 
> offensive comment on the Muggle's place in the world

On the contrary, the fact that he uses a mere intensifier of the 
description "Muggles" as an insult seems to indicate that he _does_ view 
"Muggle-ness" as a negative thing, of which having more of makes someone 
a worse person. It'd be like insulting someone who happens to be Jewish 
and also personally has many negative qualities by saying he or she is 
"the biggest Jew you ever laid eyes on" - as if all the negative things 
about them come from being Jewish and that they're so bad can be put 
down to being "more Jewish". I.e. that everything bad about the Dursleys 
is because they're such huge Muggles rather than because of anything 
personal to them.

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Random832