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[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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You may be a troll, but if you're not, I think you're missing the fact that the reason the racism was wrong and stupid in Harry Potter was because there was NO SUCH THING as pure-blood at all, that nearly all wizards had muggles in their bloodlines. If they didn't breed with muggles, they would've all died out. I think Hagrid said it in the second book or something, that everyone spouting the pureblood bullshit was delusional and probably inbred. Like how that thing went viral with the KKK leader finding out he had black ancestors.

I get that, but it doesn't change the fact that a wizard is inherently superior to a muggle. A wizard can do something that a muggle will never be able to do. (I'm not talking about the prejudice against muggle-borns and half-bloods --> that, like technological stagnation, is stupid as hell).

Humans consider ourselves better than other animals in large part because we're smarter and few people disagree with this idea.

Why, then, are wizards wrong for thinking they're better than muggles when they can do magic and muggles can't and never will be able to?

I think you're missing the point. The wizards aren't wrong for thinking they're better then muggles, practically every character including Harry thinks that. What is wrong is the wizards thinking, because they are superior, they can do whatever the hell they want to the muggles without consequence. To use your example, just because we consider ourselves better then animals, doesn't mean we should kill, torture and maim them and get away with it. If I did that, I'd be a bad person. In the eyes of most wizards, killing, torturing and maiming a muggle makes you a bad person.

But even the good wizards think they can do what they want to the muggles.

But we are told that the good wizards who do this aren't doing the right thing. When Hermione jinxes her parents, Harry and Ron are unnerved. When Fred and George give Dudley the cursed candy, Arthur screams at them about how wrong that was. Dumbledore's past views of how wizards should control the muggles for their own good almost ruins his reputation. Even doing memory charms on muggles is often seen as something very unpleasant and unsavoury. So while wizards see nothing wrong with feeling superior over muggles, doing whatever they want to them is clearly a wizarding taboo.

Wizards run the UK. Only the very highest members of the government know. It is not a taboo.

Yes, they run the UK, but they're not magicking the Prime Minister to do everything they want. in the sixth book, Fudge isn't mind-controlling him, just being condescending. If he were to cast an imperius curse to get the Prime Minister to do whatever he wants, that'd be a taboo. Anyway, if I'm remembering things wrong, feel free to correct me.

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