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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 178476

Magpie wrote:
> just because you can live with something taken away from 
> you doesn't make it a non-issue.

Del replies:
This I agree with.

> 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.

Yes there is a difference: Purebloods grow up knowing that one day
they will use a wand. Muggleborns don't. Muggleborns have to be
*invited* into the WW, while Purebloods are *born* in it. That's a
major difference. If Salazar Slytherin had had his way, Muggleborns
today would live their entire life not knowing they are wizards, and
thus not missing the use of a wand, though they would suffer negative
side-effects of it, granted. 

> 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.

Except that all things are not equal so this is quite a pointless
exercise.

> 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.

I agree. 

However, when it comes to equating Muggleborns to homosexuals, I must
point out that the comparison falls apart on this point, because
homosexuals were *never* invited into the "heterosexual world" to
begin with, so they can't be evicted. They are in the situation
Muggleborns would be in today if Slytherin had had his way: not part
of the WW. Now imagine that some Muggleborns discovered the existence
of the WW, and asked to be included in it, because they have magic
too: this would be a much closer similitude to the current situation
of homosexuals. Should they be included because they have magic, or
should they be kept on the outside because (fill in reason)? We know
the WW has had that debate for centuries.

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

Yes, that's what I was actually saying. I found *those* Muggleborns
pathetic.

Del