Pretty fucked up tbh.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’m sure plenty of them were actively involved. In the setting of the books (supposed to be 90s right?) still like 10% of wizards think non-magical humans are basically no better than animals, imagine what it was like a hundred years earlier.

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You start out in 1954 by saying, "mudblood, mudblood, mudblood." By 1968 you can't say "mudblood" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like Diagon Alley, wizards' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] muggles get hurt worse than purebloods. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the muggle problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to make a bean flavor out of this," is much more abstract than even the Diagon Alley thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "mudblood, mudblood."