The Sorting Hat reminds that when Hogwarts' house identities were established at the time of the school's founding, Slytherin preferred students from pure-blooded families, Gryffindor chose the courageous, Ravenclaw recruited the brightest students, and Hufflepuff took anyone at all. The hat sings, "Said Hufflepuff, `I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same'" (Rowling, Order of the Phoenix 205).
The prejudice prevalent in the world of Harry Potter is hypothetical. It might be racism, but it might also be any of scores of other prejudices. Its root is in making socially constructed value judgments about human beings based on qualities that are supposedly inherited, and Rowling, largely through the character of Albus Dumbledore, repeatedly
The prejudice prevalent in the world of Harry Potter is hypothetical. It might be racism, but it might also be any of scores of other prejudices. Its root is in making socially constructed value judgments about human beings based on qualities that are supposedly inherited, and Rowling, largely through the character of Albus Dumbledore, repeatedly