Backlash?

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 163427

> Doddie here:
>
> The answer is quite simple....the backlash comes from actions not
> words --namecalling and such... are for posers...there are few
> purbloods left and given the gaunt hisotry...those whom brag about
it
> look more foolish that those they are making fun of..
>
> typically we see all talk an no action (during the first few books)
>
> JK wouln't allow Harry & C0.. to dip down into DE & Offspring
> territory by have them behaving just like them..
>
> JK has it right...it is much more satisfactory to read the
behavior
> rather than read the words..
>
> Hence we have the "Hermione throws a punch episode"....and Harry
> tosses a lump of mud at draco's head! LOL
>
> Kudos to JK for taking a leaf out of Ghandi's and M.L. King Jr.'s
> book...

Magpie:
I've never thought of JK's characters or story being much like 
Ghandi, actually--what did he have to do with throwing punches? 
(Which Hermione did not do. She slapped someone--and not over 
anything to do with Purebloodism. Why is this one bit of movie-
contamination so stubborn--to the point where even Harry is suddenly 
remembering Hermione punching someone? Did he watch the trailers 
too?)

Anyway, imo, what's to backlash against? The DEs simply aren't shown
terrorizing Muggleborns. The one scene where they are behaving that
way they're going after Muggles whom all wizards can enjoy baiting
(only the good ones only go after Muggles they have a personal
grievance against). What's possibly more unusual in canon is that
Muggleborns don't have an identity at all, really. They don't group
together in any noticable way. In general the prejudice in the books
is often contradictory without any clear rules about only bad people
being prejudiced or having any preconceptions about blood or
background--not that that's necessarily a criticism. In real life
that happens a lot too. The racial conflicts seem to more play out
on an internal, individual level. Even Harry isn't so horrified by
the kind of "dipping down to the DE offspring territory" if by that
we mean James and Sirius treatment of Snape in the Pensieve. He's
shocked when they do it to a boy he doesn't exactly know (since he
didn't know Snape as a teen) but I'm not so sure all the important
differences he sees in his own generation were supposed to be so
objectively true.

-m