I don't get it. Their leader is their enemy yet they follow him. Didn't it say like in the 5th or 6th book that his parents were a witch/mom and a muggle/human. Shouldn't they hate Voldemort too?
2007-05-02 18:42:17 · 7 answers · asked by kerorin98043569 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
most don't know he had a muggle dad. Voldemort went to great lengths to keep his heritage a secret, including murdering his dad's entire family, and changing his name. It's mentioned that most wizards never made the connection between the pleasant young student Tom Riddle and the nefarious Lord Voldemort, and also (in the course of trying to discover more about Voldy's background in book 6) dumbledore tells Harry that many people are so frightened of Lord V that they have blocked out or obliterated their own memories and associations with hiim.
of course you are right - they (the purebloods) should hate Voldemort (or at any rate not respect him) and the fact that Voldemort has so cleverly hidden this little fact from them highlights the hypocracy of their "pureblood" prejudices. JK Rowling intentionally writes the death eaters and Voldemort to reflect some of the themes and ideas of the Nazis, and your question references one of the more subtle parallels - Hitler probably had some jewish ancestry, a fact that he took great pains to suppress. One of the things the "pureblood" magic ideal reminds me of is an example I saw in a holocaust history book - a publicity photo run by the Nazi government of 2 adorable, gorgeous blond children, a boy and a girl, with shining blue eyes and the girl with thick lustrous braided golden hair. Glowing with health and smiling sweetly, these children were featured in an ad touting them as the "Aryan ideal." (aryan = pure germanic, non-jewish or other "undesirable" ethnic mix.) The joke on the Nazis is that the kids they featured in this picture were actually jewish. The Nazis had a term for mixed blood called "Michlienge" which sounds a little like "mudblood" to me and means a child with "mixed blood" (ie; jewish and non-jewish parentage.)
Anyway, I've always interpreted the issue you mention to be another one of her Nazi/hypocracy parallels. (Another one is that Dumbledore defeated the dark lord Grindelwald in 1945, the same year Hilter was defeated by the allies.)
edit: yes, mudblood technically gets applied to a person who is born to muggle parents but has wizard talent - "dirty blood" = muggle blood. However, those who consort with muggles (and marry muggles) get taunted and labeled as "blood traitors" and are certainly viewed as "mixed" and inferior.
2007-05-02 20:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by lalabee 5 · 10⤊ 1⤋
Voldemort Half Blood
2016-11-07 07:22:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your wrong a mudblood is not a wizard that has a pureblood for a mother and a muggle for a father a mudblood is a muggle born witch or wizard. voldemort is a half-blood not a mudblood .Harry's mother was a mudblood
2007-05-02 20:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by jeangray26 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Voldemort is not a mudblood he is a halfblood. See his father is a muggle and his mother is a witch-Merope gaunt.
2007-05-02 19:20:50 · answer #4 · answered by book lover 1 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well, i don't think they know that Voldemort was a half-blood...it was mentioned in book 5 when Harry and Bellatrix were dueling.
2007-05-02 19:48:31 · answer #5 · answered by Samarah 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Good question. I guess it doesn't matter because of his overwhelming power. He is the heir of Slytherin, so maybe that trumps his filthy muggle father.
2007-05-02 18:50:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
i guess you could also draw similarities to hitler... wasn't exactly a blonde aryan man, but somehow managed to convince the nazis that this was the best thing while escaping criticism for his views...
2007-05-02 21:15:49 · answer #7 · answered by sunshine_mel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋