Scott Jamison wrote:

     "Mudbloods," spat Genevieve.

     Gunnar glared at her.  "We don't use that word in polite
conversation, L'Arc.  Snape will take five points from Slytherin if
he hears it, and the other teachers are even less forgiving.  

Well a five point penalty is pretty much the minimum so perhaps "much 
less forgiving" would be more appropriate.


We

use 'Muggleborn.'

     "But, yes, that was the problem.  Gryffindor wanted Hogwarts
to admit Muggleborns as a matter of course.  His idea was that the
more wizards who were properly trained, the harder it would be to
stamp them out.  He also had the notion that if wizarding blood were
spread out among all the people, eventually there wouldn't need to be
a distinction between wizards and Muggles, because everyone would be
a wizard.

Wouldn't work.  Wizards spawn Squibs so the division between the 
magically endowed and the magically unendowed would always exist even if 
everyone had wizard blood.  Of course they might end up in the minority, 
keeping them from being a credible threat.

     "So the use of a basilisk doubtless seemed like a perfectly
reasonable option to our founder.  He sealed the Chamber against
the day that he was sure would come; the day when the Muggleborns
would betray the school to the Muggles.  On that day, a Heir of
Slytherin, a Parseltongue of our House, would open the Chamber of
Secrets, and use that which lay within to purge Hogwarts of all who
were unworthy to be there.  

Does anyone smell whitewash?

     Gunnar leaned in closer.  "Tom Riddle wasn't ready for total
war just yet, so he staged a series of near-miss attacks, hoping to
frighten the school's Headmaster at the time, Dippett, into expelling
the Muggleborns.  Finally, he actually killed a girl, though it
might have been an accident.  His plan backfired, though.  

Gosh.  How could a plan like that go wrong?  It was carefully worked out!


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