Rowling covered a lot of big topics throughout the seven installments of Harry Potter. Friendship, love, loyalty, magic, time and most importantly race. Unlike some of the other topics which are openly discussed, she decided to breach the sensitive topic of race in the cleverest of ways. Rather than speaking about race in the traditional sense we are all used too, Rowling created a metaphor for race one which focuses on blood and lineage rather than skin color. By creating these new groups, Rowling gave her readers the chance to look at race and discrimination in a whole new light.
It would have been easy for Rowling to have acknowledge more traditional races and have the divide within the magical world be similar to that in the muggle world; …show more content…
Voldemort and his Death Eaters who believe Wizards should rule over the Muggle world. Yet on closer examination we see there is a lot of internal struggle within the Magical community and the way Magical “races” or groups are formed. Rowling addresses this segregation as early as the first book. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry first meet Draco on the steps of Hogwarts, where Draco decides to explain to Harry the hierarchy of the Wizard World. Draco who refers to “half-bloods” and Muggle Borns as “the other sort”, encourages Harry to stay with his “own kind” as in “pure-bloods”. Harry of course much like his creator Rowling does not believe in these kinds of separations and chooses to stay with his new friends Ron and …show more content…
It’s not just the fact that she clearly disproves the magical blood hierarchy, she also describes her characters without using race. The Harry Potter movies, like most Hollywood films, are seriously lacking in diversity. However, the original literary version rarely if ever even mentions race. When describing the majority of the characters Rowling only mentions features like glasses and hair color, she never specifically says “black” or “white”. She knew that it didn’t matter what color skin her characters had, it mattered how they acted, and how they treated other living
It would have been easy for Rowling to have acknowledge more traditional races and have the divide within the magical world be similar to that in the muggle world; …show more content…
Voldemort and his Death Eaters who believe Wizards should rule over the Muggle world. Yet on closer examination we see there is a lot of internal struggle within the Magical community and the way Magical “races” or groups are formed. Rowling addresses this segregation as early as the first book. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry first meet Draco on the steps of Hogwarts, where Draco decides to explain to Harry the hierarchy of the Wizard World. Draco who refers to “half-bloods” and Muggle Borns as “the other sort”, encourages Harry to stay with his “own kind” as in “pure-bloods”. Harry of course much like his creator Rowling does not believe in these kinds of separations and chooses to stay with his new friends Ron and …show more content…
It’s not just the fact that she clearly disproves the magical blood hierarchy, she also describes her characters without using race. The Harry Potter movies, like most Hollywood films, are seriously lacking in diversity. However, the original literary version rarely if ever even mentions race. When describing the majority of the characters Rowling only mentions features like glasses and hair color, she never specifically says “black” or “white”. She knew that it didn’t matter what color skin her characters had, it mattered how they acted, and how they treated other living