As the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry once announced, “You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” So why should anybody who is a member of the non-magical community, an ordinary human, be exempt from the chance to interact with those pure bloods (pupils with all magical heritages)? One quarter of the enrolled witches and wizards of Hogwarts have two non-magical parents a foul nickname for them is ‘Mudbloods’, while others are half-bloods: have been born to one magical parent.
The magical community has been a different world since 1692 when the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy was put into place. Magic cannot simply be studied and learnt by all muggles; yet these two worlds have been constantly overlapping in history referring back to the 1600s when many wizards and witches lived in fear of persecution; they feared that they would be caught and burnt alive or sentenced to life in prison. Deaths by muggle-hunters lead the wizard kind to beg for some sort of protection law. William III refused this idea which forced The Ministry of …show more content…
Hermione may be a witch with muggle parents, but this doesn’t affect the tremendous sacrifices and achievements made towards her dedication for magic. ‘S.P.E.W’ stands for the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare and this group was founded by Hermione because she felt that house-elves were treated utterly despicably; so automatically she is popular among the elves. Ultimately, calling a muggle a ‘mud-blood’ is a very derogatory term and you can hardly call Hermione Granger a ‘mug’ or ‘foolish’ when she has such an alert intellect; plus you would have to take it up with the house elves! This is very much the same as Lord Voldemort, no witch or wizard would refer to him as a