Purity_ofBlood

=>Discourse on the purity of Blood and Harry Potter: How do the novels play with the thesis of pure blood (Master Race) giving an anti-thesis by belonging protagonists to half-blood / Mud-blood? What sort of synthesis is sought in this discourse in Harry Potter series?

#The term 'Pure Blood' refer to a family or individual without muggle. The concept is generally associated with Salazar Slyhthrin. One of the four founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizardry. whose aversion to teaching anybody of Muggle parentage eventually led to a breach with his three fellow founders and his resignation from the school. Where the term 'pure blood' originated from.

In this novel protagonist Harry potter and Hermione Granger are Mud blood. Ron Weasley is a pure blood. Draco Malfoy is also pure blood. Where as evil Voldemort is Mud blood but craving for pure blood. J.K.Rowling subverts the entire narrative by making protagonist who are mud bloods. And important thing is that they are equally or sometimes more powerful in magic than pure blood. So definitely it leads us to think that what should be criteria to judge the people Race/ Blood or merit.This transposing of magical racial beliefs to non-magical racial beliefs is also reflected in the pure-blood mania driving Voldemort and his followers. Voldemort’s followers fully believe that being of pure-blooded ancestry brings with it extra talent, abilities, or worth, even in the face of “consistent evidence against pure-blood superiority” throughout the novels.

Many times reference comes in the novel they how pure blood were insulting mud bloods as inferior. And if we hear this kind of dialogue even today in and around us, then we have to be double careful.