[ SECRET POST #5980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5980 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I definitely don't agree with your reading of HP, but I'm trying not to just get into an argument about how to interpret the text here because the text is so full of holes that you could drive just about any interpret through it.

But I also don't think this fully answers my question. If "muggle harmlessness and benevolent wizard supremacy" are the underlying ethos of the Gryffindors, that still seems like a better and more justifiable point of view than the ethos of the Slytherins. Even if you think there's something to be said for a degree of wizard separatism, the Slytherins absolutely take that to a place of bigotry and prejudice and, indeed, wizard supremacy. Even if you think that muggle-human relationships are fraught, that's still no reason to act like total dicks towards individual muggles or wizards with muggle parents, and try to exclude them from full participation in wizarding society. But that's such a large part of what Slytherins actually do.

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AYRT

Ah. Then I apologize for not answer your question before. I think muggles are feeling the lack of wizards and magic, and wizards are feeling the lack of muggles. I think they need to find a way to coexist with a realistic understanding of what they do and don't have in common. The books make it abundantly clear that wizards are not inherently finer human beings than muggles are. But, if it comes down to a contest of force, the wizards will generally have the means to get their way. And yet, muggles are not so inferior to them that they could just *enforce their will* without being in a state of constant, costly war. So yes, a better solution needs to be found. That's only going to happen by moving away from the statute of secrecy and trying to help the two worlds become one again. From a point of view of honesty and looking for what these people have to offer each other.

"Muggles are just like us, except for something that doesn't matter" is willfully untrue. "Muggle lives are less valuable than ours" is equally untrue.

I don't have to be a death-eater to think that year after year, it's kids who are getting brutalized at the join where these two, inextricably entwined societies are bridged by the lives of children, who just can't help being what they are, quite separate from what their families were or expect them to become.