There are a lot of instances in the HP books where the author makes it perfectly okay for the 'good guys' to call people muggle. And it's rarely if ever favorable how they talk about non-magicals. The word has been used by 'good guys' in a negative sense or to speak badly of someone who has no magic.
For Harry and company it becomes a offense worth fighting about, they get bent out of shape over draco calling Hermione a 'mudblood' but never even give a second thought to how they themselves have used the word muggle.
Hell, Lily totally banishing her 'best friend' - Lily practically tells Severus he can go to the devil. He was being totally humiliated and tortured by a 'goodie'. Lily practically says: Yea, just go join an evil group that wants me dead...see if I care.
On some level Lily comes across as pretty damn shallow character when you think about it. She ends up marrying a guy who's actions she finds offensive. I mean ya know, it wasn't just Severus who was getting his knickers yanked off. We have a few comments throughout the series that James had a ego problem and would hex random people for no reason.
It's another example of it's okay for Mr. Pefect hero type to be an asshole - he'll still gets the girl no matter how much of a abusive bully he actually was. Lets just forget he was an bully since he spawned the Chosen One! You get brownie points for being the sire of "PURE LOVE".
I mean ya know, first thought I would have if I was in Lily's position is, Even if my best friend was a jerk to me, I would certainly have a lot of second...third...and fourth thoughts about ever dating a guy who publicly humiliates someone who was or had been my friend. But hay...Old boy James and Harry get passes right...They're the heros!
Hell, what about poor Hermione's parents - clearly they didn't have a choice in their memory getting screwed around with by their magical daughter and her sending them to live in Australia.
Hermione is one of the 'good' people so we're not supposed to question it, we as readers must just accept what JKR writes about her 'goodies' because we are supposed to accept that they are 'good' and they're not REALLY doing bad.
Muggle, it's only a bad word if you wear grey or black. If you are clearly defined in the story as wearing a white hat...you get a big pass on being prejudice. They can't be prejudice they're the good guys.
Don't even get me started on the epilogue where Ron 'suppsedly' using magic to pass a muggle driving test. Explains why there are so many morons behind the wheel - those bad drivers are actually wizards and witches who couldn't figure out a muggle test. So much for wizards being 'smarter' than muggles.
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The 'muggle'
Date: 2010-10-05 03:37 am (UTC)There are a lot of instances in the HP books where the author makes it perfectly okay for the 'good guys' to call people muggle. And it's rarely if ever favorable how they talk about non-magicals. The word has been used by 'good guys' in a negative sense or to speak badly of someone who has no magic.
For Harry and company it becomes a offense worth fighting about, they get bent out of shape over draco calling Hermione a 'mudblood' but never even give a second thought to how they themselves have used the word muggle.
Hell, Lily totally banishing her 'best friend' - Lily practically tells Severus he can go to the devil. He was being totally humiliated and tortured by a 'goodie'. Lily practically says: Yea, just go join an evil group that wants me dead...see if I care.
On some level Lily comes across as pretty damn shallow character when you think about it. She ends up marrying a guy who's actions she finds offensive. I mean ya know, it wasn't just Severus who was getting his knickers yanked off. We have a few comments throughout the series that James had a ego problem and would hex random people for no reason.
It's another example of it's okay for Mr. Pefect hero type to be an asshole - he'll still gets the girl no matter how much of a abusive bully he actually was. Lets just forget he was an bully since he spawned the Chosen One! You get brownie points for being the sire of "PURE LOVE".
I mean ya know, first thought I would have if I was in Lily's position is, Even if my best friend was a jerk to me, I would certainly have a lot of second...third...and fourth thoughts about ever dating a guy who publicly humiliates someone who was or had been my friend. But hay...Old boy James and Harry get passes right...They're the heros!
Hell, what about poor Hermione's parents - clearly they didn't have a choice in their memory getting screwed around with by their magical daughter and her sending them to live in Australia.
Hermione is one of the 'good' people so we're not supposed to question it, we as readers must just accept what JKR writes about her 'goodies' because we are supposed to accept that they are 'good' and they're not REALLY doing bad.
Muggle, it's only a bad word if you wear grey or black. If you are clearly defined in the story as wearing a white hat...you get a big pass on being prejudice. They can't be prejudice they're the good guys.
Don't even get me started on the epilogue where Ron 'suppsedly' using magic to pass a muggle driving test. Explains why there are so many morons behind the wheel - those bad drivers are actually wizards and witches who couldn't figure out a muggle test. So much for wizards being 'smarter' than muggles.