Ginny hexes / kinds of bigotry / Harry's Erised / what DD remembered

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:


> Nora wrote in 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3488 :
> 
> << I think there's something particularly about blood ideology, its
> kind of essentialism, which is being singled out. I don't think
> Voldemort could have built what he did on the doctrine
> of "kill the stupid", for instance. :) >>
> 
> But there is a history of so-called religious leaders doing it with
> 'kill the unbelievers! kill the sinners!'

Of course there is.  But that isn't what's being presented to us in 
the books--'unbelievers' with the possibility of conversion (or 
sinners who can atone) creates a different dynamic than the appeal to 
old authority (and the opportunity of the advancement of those 
meeting certain criteria) that we're seeing in the books.  Hence my 
objections to the flattening "oh, there are soo many kinds of bigotry 
and prejudice" line.

-Nora takes a line of specificity, in this case