The Fundamental Message.../ Heroes...

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 176489

> magpie:
> <snipping>
> > In DH Hermione tells Griphook that they are the same as far as 
the 
> > DEs are concerned. She's a Mudblood, that's why they tortured 
her.
> > I think we're supposed to take that as the truth, as if they are 
> > the same, even though it's not. Hermione isn't the same as 
> > Griphook.  Hermione's part of the dominant group who is being 
> > victimized due to in-fighting within that group. After months of
> > this she returns to her previous status at the top of the heap.
> > Muggle-born persecution matters to the story. Goblin persecution
> > does not. They can "take are of themselves" according to Hermione
> > herself and they will remain part of the world-building and not 
> > part of the theme. Harry's sleeping through the Goblin Rebellion
> > lessons is just fine.
> 
> Jen:  I read this scene a different way because of the prior 
> context.  Griphook asserts that the war is about wand-carriers vs. 
> magical creatures: "As the Dark Lord becomes even more powerful, 
your 
> race is set still more firmly above mine!  Gringotts falls under 
> Wizarding rule, house elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the 
wand-
> carriers protests?"*  Griphook considers the wizarding race as a 
> whole to be gaining power, whether they work directly with 
Voldemort 
> or merely benefit by not opposing his actions.  Hermione protests 
> this view of affairs, noting there are humans actively opposing 
> Voldemort's takeover and how some of them, Muggleborns like her, 
have 
> also lost rights in the process.  

Magpie:
But I think Hermione's view as opposed to Griphook's is the one the 
book takes. Griphook has every reason to see the wand-carriers 
gaining power in general and not make distinctions between Muggle-
borns and Pure-bloods. The book is concerned with the injustices 
done to the wand-carriers who are opposing their own rights taken 
away. Griphook's pov as a non-human, his different perspective, is 
simply wrong, just as is his idea that the sword was stolen. 

-m