JKR messed up........ no.

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 178473

Del:
> Aren't they men and women first? Personally, I always saw them as
> pretty pathetic. Many people all over the world have had their 
entire
> world taken away from them, but they *bounced back*. Those 
Muggleborns
> are not prevented from going to make a fine living in the Muggle 
world
> for the time being. So why don't they? Are they so brain-washed 
that
> they don't even remember how to live in the Muggle world? It's not
> even like they are supposed to go and live in a world they know
> nothing of: it's the world they were *born* in! Think of all those
> emigrants who lost everything in their country of origin and 
emigrated
> to better places: they were jumping into a world, a life, a 
society,
> even a language they knew nothing about. Now that's courage. Just
> sitting around and moping because the big bad wolf has taken your 
wand
> is pretty pathetic in comparison.

Magpie:
But isn't the point that there's no reason they should? I see no 
reason that any of them must lay down and die if they can't carry a 
wand, but just because you can live with something taken away from 
you doesn't make it a non-issue. There's no difference between a 
Pureblood using a wand or a Muggle-born; they're just arbitrarily 
told they can't do it when other people can. Likewise with gay 
people. Some people think there's some objective reason that it's 
bad for them to have sex with a consenting adult of their choice in 
ways it isn't bad for a straight person to--all things being equal 
except the genders. I've never heard anyone give me a reason for 
this that sounded reasonable to me, and that's why it seems like the 
same thing. The idea that Muggle-borns "stole" their magic is a made 
up false reason. People can pick up and move to other countries 
where they don't have the skills to be as successful and where 
they're outsiders and survive--that doesn't make evicting them 
necessarily right or okay. (Muggle-borns have already shown they're 
resiliant anyway--they made the switch to a new world at 11 perhaps 
better than a Pureblood tossed into the Muggle world would.)

Or were you just saying, not related to the discussion, that you 
foudn those particular Muggle-borns pathetic in what they were doing?

-m