Discourse on Purity of Blood and Harry Potter

' It's about the most insulting thing he could think of,' gasped Ron, coming back up. ' Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who was Muggle-born-you know, non-magic parents. There are some wizards - like Malfoy's family - who think they're what people call pure-blood.'

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The term "pure-blood" refers to a family or individual without Muggle blood. The concept is generally associated with Salazar Slytherin.

¶ Blood purity is a concept in the fictional HarryPotter book series. It is a form of classprejudice and also has analogies to racism.

¶ Being born and raised by Death Eaters, young Malfoy works as a constant reminder throughout the seven books about the racial issue, and his little hints and nasty comments are a preparation for what is to come in the last book. Harry, who is born by magical parents but raised by his Muggle aunt and uncle, is unaware of the magical world and his role in it until his eleventh birthday.

¶ First introduced in the second book, the word “Mudblood” will come to play a
prominent part in the story about Harry Potter. Not surprisingly it is once again Draco Malfoy
who introduces the word by calling .....

Hermione :- "Filthy Little Mudblood".

The humans of the wizarding world are, apart from the Mudbloods, divided into three other main groups:-

1. Pure-bloods
2. Half-bloods &
3. Squibs.

¶ pure-blood, for example Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy, is a witch or wizard with only magical relatives; he or she therefore has “pure” magical blood. They are born and raised in the magical world and are therefore obviously familiar with its customs.

¶ A half-blood, Harry Potter for example,is
someone with both magical and non-magical relatives. Having at least one magical parent, a
half-blood is in most cases also brought up with the knowledge of the wizard world.

¶ It is some witches and wizards’ attitude towards non-magical individuals that form the basis of Voldemort’s pure-blood ideology. This attitude is wide-spread in the wizard world.

'Barrett' says that ....

" Across the wizarding world, attitude towards Muggles include egalitarianism, disregard, avid curiosity, paternalism, and outright hatred.
[ Luna University]

◆ References :-

1. https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/4285141

2. http://harrypotter-magicworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/blood-purity-harry-potter.html?m=1

3. https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/pure-blood

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