Danger in designating an "Other" / Slytherins / DH as Christian Allegory

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174006

 
> Neri:
> It's a nice speculation, only JKR doesn't support it in DH more than
> she does the rest of the series. Phineas Nigellus was a Slytherin
> Headmaster before Riddle's time, and he uses the mudblood word without
> even thinking about it. Or was his portrait infiltrated too? The
> Sorting Hat is our sole source from the founders' days, and it tells
> us that old Salazar wanted to teach only those "who's ancestry was
> purest". Or was the Sorting Hat infiltrated too? Lets face it, the
> official position of the series is that Salazar left an XXXXX class
> monster in a secret room at Hogwarts so that his heir can release it
> and "purge" the school. I don't see why someone would want that kind
> of family tradition, unless someone still likes to believe that his
> "pure" blood makes him better than the mudbloods. 
> 
>
colebiancardi:

well - Phineas Nigellus is of a different era - it wasn't like he was
headmaster within recent memory.

What was commonplace to use to describe *people* back then are slurs
today.  Just look at a few decades ago - The US had a border program
where it caught illegal Mexicans and sent them back to Mexico in the
1950's - I won't mention the name, but you can google it to find out
what they called it.  Operation W......(you can fill it in).  Today,
no one unless they are racist, would call Mexicans that.  But in the
1950's, it was perfectly acceptable.

colebiancardi