When you go back and think of the many witch hunts that happened over the centuries, it makes sense that there are wizards who would despise them/reject them and even go to the extreme of wanting a pure blood supremacy. When you look at the matter through that lense, it has a different perspective.
@@theNicholas1117 I don't think they mean it as having purenloods on charge and ruling with an iron fist. I think it was meant to be: wizards only, keep muggles out. Which in many cases would also keep muggleborns out. It was similar to how the MACUSA used to run the American wizard community.
@@theNicholas1117 I disagree completely. The steps from hatred to supremacy, especially at the societal level aren’t that many. And the magical society is divided. And pure-blood supremacy, at that level, I would argue, would be the strongest in periods where the society is divided. I mean wouldn’t it be obvious why ideals like that develop when they see other witches and wizards turn on their own kind. “Fraternising” with the enemy who hunted and killed them? And not only are they siding with the muggles, but in so doing they’re putting all the other magicals at risk too, exposing the magical community. Moreover it’s not just a point of view of “they don’t accept/hate the muggle-borns” either because they do have magical blood but they don’t conform to the society that’s welcoming them. The society that ultimately wouldn’t kill them for what they are (ideally). Like let’s use African-American people as an example. They have black heritage in their blood but that doesn’t mean they inherently get to speak in name of African people who actually live in Africa. Born and raised, who live their life, and enjoy and suffer the perks and downsides of that life, the country, and culture. And yet here they are, muggle borns coming to teach purebloods how to live their life. Causing the magical society to change “in their favour”, to make them feel comfortable, accepted, included. Many values and traditions get slandered and defined dark just because of outsiders who don’t understand how their world really work. Or at least that’s how magical families like the Malfoy could see it across the years. Magical society is really traditional and slow, (not to add prejudicial against other magical beings too) I would see it as a normal evolution when it suddenly starts changing, that they are repulsed, sceptical and hateful. They don’t interact at all with muggles so everything that comes from them is foreign and alien like. And let’s not forget that this is like practically spitting at their own past “oh you’ve hunted and killed my own people for centuries in the past, and despite you not really having done anything to repair that and make you trustworthy, I’m not just gonna trust you anyway and accept you but I’m even gonna make you comfortable and change my home to adapt it to you too”. How could you trust anything but pure blood supremacy then? So I’m just saying that at least for me it makes sense. Dislike evolves into hatred and hatred evolves into supremacy. And it would make for a great nuanced story exploring how these themes would be addressed in a modern magical political atmosphere.
There was one Malfoy who tried to court Elizabeth I of England. She rejected him and it’s theorized he put a charm on her causing her refusal to marry.
Pureblood witches and wizards hate muggles because they are more powerful they should be leading the world but they have been forced into hiding. When you look at what a slytherin traits we are clever, resourceful, ambitious, and determined. It doesn't make sense to us to be under the heel of a weaker species because of the so called morals of others. The whole system goes against who we are, it doesn't make sense for witches and wizards to hide their power, it doesn't make sense to enchant our homes and practice magic in the dark. It doesn't make sense that children become obscurials because they have to suppress their abilities. Witches and Wizards have a gift and too many wizards are happy to hide in the shadows. I wouldn't like muggles either.
I understand just fine why The Malfoys and other pure bloods hated muggles….The British Witch Trials, the Salem Witch Trials. Also, the persecution of anyone believed to have practiced witchcraft or thought to have abilities.
I would love a founding families story. To see the troubles they faced, the Magic they created, and the way they banded together would be really interesting.
I like that you pointed out that Lucius chose his family over the agenda he had been conditioned to uphold. Some people seem to forget that. THIS IS NOT TO SAY LUCIUS' DEEDS WEREN'T HORRENDOUS, just that amongst all that darkness and twistedness, there was a speck of light.
exactly I recently mentioned this myself after hearing one of the death eaters say: "he dont have the stomach like hisfather" during draco's 1st assassination attempt I figured lucius did the bulk for his family
Lucius actually knew love, that's why. It was returned, and strong enough to overcome a lifetime of conditioning, in the end. He loved his wife and child, and thus, at the very end, made a choice in their favor. No, he's not redeemable, but it was one of those small but pivotal times when that emotion made all the difference in a very difficult situation.
Funny how just the surname "Bad Faith" contradicts their first names, Lucius means light, yet he turned to darkness, Draco means dragon, a creature associated with bravery and strength, yet he always fled like a coward(he deserved far better though), and Narcissa meant narcissist, yet she was still the most selfless compared to the other Malfoys...
The Malfoys just perfected inherited trauma, it sounds like. Of course, of course. Nothing but the best for the Malfoys. In seriousness, inherited trauma is still being studied but does seem to be a likely real thing. It does not seem to last 1000 years, but we have only recently started to study it, so, who knows.
Tbf, during the beginning of the series especially, and in Magical Beasts, people in the Wizarding world were extremely cautious about showing off. We are shown the aftermath. Not what lead up to it as a result. 1000 years is a long time. I'm sure it's gotten better. If we take a look at our own human history, we have our ups and our downs. Realistically, it wouldn't be shocking or surprising if the ups and downs occurred for the muggles and non muggles.
I feel like Dean puts a lot of effort and he should get more subs and likes than he does he is one of the hardest working UA-camrs I don't know him but it's a fact
One thing I kinda believe is that Lucius Malfoy really was Imperiused into taking the Dark Mark. I can't really see him consenting to becoming anyone's underling. A silent ally who provided funds and resources to the movement while keeping his own hands clean, but not a servant. And of course, once the Dark Mark was on his arm, Voldemort had direct control over Malfoy, so the Imperius Curse was redundant for most purposes. Thus Lucius Malfoy didn't lie about being Imperiused; he just obfuscated about the extent of his volitional collusion. And paid some hefty bribes as well.
Dark Mark doesn't mind control people, though. If it did, Karkaroff wouldn't have been able to think of fleeing. And Snape couldn't have betrayed Voldemort when he killed the Potters.
The Mark did not mind control people, but it did allow Voldemort to locate them and kill them if he d wanted. Pretty much like the most powerful psychopath keeping you under a tracker. There was no way they could have escaped the dark lord chasing them down. So you d think twice before betraying the man in a position like that. Also: why would Voldemort even need the imperius curse? He was a master manipulator AND could literally read minds. You would THINK about betraying him, and he would know exactly where you were at. Aka: Snape might have been a jerk, but it took guts (and strengh) to do what he did. Didn t it?
And His wife Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) Abandone her pureblood belfes and rise Scorpius, by "Saying all muggleborns must be treated with respect" before she died
Just saw this video my sincerest compliments to the content creator of this wonderful video as well as it's channel holder when I say thank you for another wonderful video in spite of your recently publicly announced sinus infection I hope you have improved I have not even watched nor listen to this video but I'm just going to say"Abraxis Malfoy feared what he wouldn't allow himself to comprehend"now I'm going to watch the video thank you and have a nice day.
Albus Severus Potter is Harry's secondborn son, not half-son. Still, it's pretty awesome that both Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter were sorted into Slytherin.
I think it is also as well that pure blood wizards see mundane born witches and wizards as a threat. They fear that traditions would be lost with mundane BØRNS coming in. One of the best examples I can think of is Hermione. She genuinely meant well, but the way she handled the house elves is a really good example. House elves, love to work and serve people, and she viewed it as slavery, simply because they weren’t paid. Instead of actually speaking to the elves and finding out their side, and finding out what day wanted, she just took matters into her own hands and started knitting items for the elves, thus tricking them into freeing themselves When they may not want to be freed, or it could be detrimental to the health of the elves to be freed because they feed off the magic from the people and place that they serve. The elves refused to clean the parts of Hogwarts where Hermione left the clothes for them, and instead of consulting the elves again about what day wanted, she just doubled down her efforts. Hermione is probably not the first, nor will be the last to do this, and so what if mundane, born witches and wizards have actually offended, pure blood wizards time and again through their ignorance, even if they have good intentions, Also traditional holidays such as samhain, and you’ll where replaced with a more Western eyes version of Christmas and Halloween which we see at Hogwarts every year. Also, another reason is mundane. People still continue to miss treat magical‘s. A group of mundane boys attacked Albus Dumbledore‘s sister to the point where she forced herself to stop practising magic, and Harry was constantly miss treated by his relatives because he was magical and they weren’t, and it is well known that Petunia hated magic, because she was jealous of Lily, and that jealousy turned into hatred and bitterness, so, even in an enlightened period of history, magical‘s are still miss treated by mundane’s, so it is no wonder that magical’s continue to miss trust, Mondays and have disdain for them I’m not saying it is right, but I understand why it happens. Also, sorry about the mistakes I’m using dictation and it doesn’t always pick up what I want to say
The Malfoys probably arrived in England during the Norman Invasion seeing as their name is Old French. It would also explain their aristocratic background.
Drako Malloy had a redemption role in the end, especially after Harry rescued him from the room of requirement fire, when everyone thought Harry was dead, And then suddenly alive in the courtyard, it was Drako that threw his wand to Harry to defend from Voldemorts strike. This scene was cut in the movie and that was a shame. But in the end Drako was ashamed of the choices he made and acted to help Harry at a critical moment. He redeemed his family name and dishonor.
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 That was mere speculation and not proven, there was a lot of inbreeding in his family tree, but no actual proof of Jewish ancestry. He, however didn't fit his own ideal of superiority, being a short brunette with brown eyes.
I always root for the villains because they are usually not wrong. I agree and relate to them more. Voldemort and the Malfoys were my favorite characters in Harry Potter. I was happy to know that Harry could have been a Slitherin. 😂😂😂
You should check out Super Carlin Brothers' videos on what would happen if Harry had been sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. Malfoy's story arc is my favorite part of the entire thing, it's worth a watch!!
You got to infer from the novels that the Malfoy family was definitely one of the very early families because. Their vault is way more secure and it even says the older families have more secure bolts down in the dungeon areas Harry's vault is not secured by a dragon or anything like that and his family goes back pretty pretty far yes it's broken off of the pebble family but still Harry's fault is nowhere near as heavily guarded as the malfoys or as far down in the bolts so I would assume that that's a Malfoy voltage at least a decade or more older
I think it does also help explain why they walked away, but something else I wondered was if the Weasley family hated pureblood ideology, why did they marry only into magical families until Ron and Hermione?
@@samiam2088 They wouldn't have been included in the list. Perhaps there were some relatives who did before Ron and Hermione, but either way, they hate pureblood ideology, which was a thing for over 900 years before the book's publication, and they still got listed because they never intermarried.
Yes. And while Draco is devastated when his wife dies not long after their son Scorpius is born, Scorpius is also "Someone (for Draco) to Remember Her By", and he also fulfills Lucius's version of "I Want Grandkids".
Great video. I could tell that you put sm time, energy, and effort into making all of your videos. Btw, I do agree with you about this being the source of the Malfoys' extremist views against all non-Pure-blooded witches and wizards.
Draco: Hey, my name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist. I despise muggles and mudbloods. I hate Gryffindor house but I love Slytherin house. And my parents work for the man who killed your parents. Wanna be my friend?
Great theory but his boss Voldemort was a half breed as was Snape so their reticence to interact with anyone that's not exactly like them is very capricious because it's based solely on their mood apparently..... somebody offers them enough money or power the concern about their blood status goes right out the window
This is another great video but, while magical people might just be exploited, disrespected, killed, and persecuted by the rest of the world just as they were in the past, I would like to think that there are enough decent and open-minded people that the magical community would still be accepted by enough people that the blood- purists and the people who want to dominate or destroy the Muggle community would realize the folly and the pointlessness of their actions and be content to live and let live. Especially since the Gaunt family and others prove that holding on too tightly to blood purity and outdated ideologies is stupid and empty.
Reality is that magical people still need to live hiding, they cant say anyone they are magial other wise they would be hunted dows, so basically they are supressed minority who wish to live freem fight back. Only difference is they have magic so if they are going to be hunted down they can take thousands with them. I think Pureblood ideology is tottaly fine, it ensures that magical blood will be carried on. it dosent mean you need to hate others who act differently, but you can have you close circle who have same values as you. So you can find mates for your childrens and ensure your family line endures thousands of years. Thouse who are willing to mix they blood too much will risk that magical ability will be quenced in family line. I offere, That Hermione ancestors were magical, but for generations they skiped magical ability and in Hermione it surfaced again.
If anything the thing that would happen is that everyone would be trying to get DNA from the wizards for their kids because they have genetically based super powers
Seems to me the Malfoy family had a fair amount of halfblood family members until the magical community went underground? Significantly more recently than ten centuries ago?
I think Lucias malfloy for I would agree with you and Lucias melfoy would be wrong. I think that's how they perceive their motive but it's more about an increasing number of half blood and muggle born witches and wizards. It's also about spikes in wealth from unpredictable quarters. I think subconsciously it was about maintaining the old balance of power more or less. They were worried about the replacement of old wizard and families with a lot of half blood and muggleborn wizards would result in the loss of their wealth and prestige.
I agree with you Orion. It's similar to the replacement theory we are dealing with now in America. The pure-blood wizards would see powerful half-bloods like Harmony as a threat to their prestige and power.
And Lucius knew Voldemort was half muggle. What I think, Lucius would follow Voldemort. Let Voldemort do most of the dirty work. Subjugation and extermination of a good portion of the muggle population. Then exposed Voldemort for being half muggle and take over.
I can sympathize with the persecuted. But I cannot sympathize with the bigoted. I can sympathize with the desire of the persecuted to unite for mutual support. But I cannot sympathize with limiting that support to a few.
I think you are absolutely right, I think it makes perfect sense that Magic-Kind would be prejudiced against Muggles due to the way witches and warlocks were treated throughout the ages. Bravo 👏🏻 excellent video!!
Don't remember where I heard it but I believe the Malfoy's made their fortune by trading with muggles. Didn't really address this source of their fortune in this video. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this. Perhaps they were (from their point) of scamming the muggles. Trying to think of ways where they maintain their hatred of pure bloods, and yet make their money from the muggles.
There has been something that I always took issue with that maybe you could answer for us. In book 7, voldemort went to the previous address of grigorovich and found a new family living there, it heavily implied that he killed them and did so essentially in the same way he killed Harry's parents. So my question is, why didn't the same ancient power of "love" cause his curse to again rebound and strip him from his body?
Because voldemort didn't ask the mother to step aside. Although the mothsr shielded her kids, she didn't have an opportunity to offer herself instead of the kids like lily did for Harry
I've always tought they were more like a Black supremacy group than actual Nazis. It's important to remark that doesn't make it okay. Discussing this got me kicked out of tons of Harry Potter clubs online. for some reason people in real life agree with me, but never online. I wouldn't personally have had the guts to post this after my experiences with people on the internet.
I don’t blame them considering they had had a long brutal history It was lucky that according to the child Canon Draco reforms and raise his son scorpus to be a decent person
The logic is sound, and I'd even say that from that stance, the belief would be at least somewhat justified. Hatred is never something that just appears out of thin air. It's either a response to a past wrong committed by the now hated party, real or percieved, or evolved from fear of a threat the hated party represents, real or percieved, or both. You don't hate those you see als lesser. You may tell yourself that to feel better. But in reality, you hate those you think wronged you, those you think will wrong you, and those who you think wronged you and will do so again. Those you think of as weaker are those you bully if you're an asshole, or pity, or protect if you're a perticularely nice person, but you don't hate them. There are a lot of hints that the wizarding world, the creation of Hogwarts, the Statute of Secrecy, and many more things in the wizarding world, are the way they are due to the witch hunts. But that doesn't align with actual history very well. For starters, the first witch hunts were in the mid 1300s and continued all the way into the late 1700s. Before that, European Kingdoms were very much concerned with waging wars against non-christians and converting as many people as possible to christianity. The Celtic Druids and Germanic Völur were both very well respected parts of their respective societies believed to have powerful magic, mostly for healing, fortune telling, and communication with gods and spirits. Even older societies had shamans, medicine men, and similar professions, where people who are believed to have magic powers are held in high esteem within the society, to a simmilar degree as a king or a chieftain. Druids and Völur, among others, are theorized to have later joined/merged together into what was later called witchcraft. The fact that the Wizarding World gives very little details on that, and those details only match actual history in very few select instances, may be to the fact that JK Rowling slept in history class just as every Hogwarts student sleeps in the presence of Professor Binns. So what Mrs Rowling knows about history comes close to "Literally Nothing". As in, if we told her castles in Germany were all built by Hitler, yes all of them, she'd have no reason to not believe us, because she doesn't know any better.
I disagree with this video it has been stated on the wizarding world site that many malfoy' s integrated themselves in high muggle circle' s. Constantly earning favor from muggle royalty and even adding muggle artifacts to their collection. As a matter of fact the malfoys were very opposed to the international statue of secrecy when it was announced since it meant they would lose their connections with the muggle elite. The only reason they supported it later was because it was already passed into law and it became clear the ministry of magic was the new heart of power. So as not to lose any power they pretented to have supported it from the start and denied having ever been on speaking terms with muggles.
However side note on what I just said. We never actually got to see the Malfoy volt we saw the lestranges fault and I don't think they ever mentioned any of the lineage of the lestranges
Both surnames sound French, so it's not a hard stretch to figure that both families have roots in that region and immigrated to Britain at some point, though the Lestranges might have come from somewhere else before being given/cursed with their surname (strange or _foreign._ ) I always found it a touch heavy-handed that an antagonist family had a surname that is basically a mangled and mis-spelled word that means 'in bad faith' in French; personally, I wouldn't put it past some far-past Malfoy having double-crossed someone and their family been cursed with a nomenmantic curse to warn others of their duplicitous nature.
Why would Draco want to befriend Harry? He’s not a pure blood, unless having a muggle born parent doesn’t count. Truly curious. I like the series, but I’m not a potterhead.
i think most native americans can understand that best. my gramma wanted everyone to be enrollable, but on the rez staying purist can be dangerous incest wise. not sure there are enough wizards for that to be a problem thou lol
why would Draco want to be friends with Harry ? after all Harry was a mudblood as they say, could it have been to get Harry into contact with the Dark Lord were they could kill him
Not a good point, I'm afraid. Do you remember that burning witches was completely pointless according to PoA? Actual witches and wizards were almost never burned, unless they were too young to have been trained, or in other words: Muggleborns. Muggleborns were the only witches and wizards who were actually burned, and now they are the ones persecuted by the likes of Malfoy. But many witches and wizards don't have an ounce of logic (who said that again?).
@@Phoenix1984DK uh she wrote about Ariana being killed, she wrote about rabbits being hung, it wouldn't be too gruesome to mention that considering plenty of kids die through out the books So, think again dude.
Your story does sound very plausible. However, it does reinforce a big question that I've had about this series. How many of Voldemort's followers knew that out of the bigger characters in the second war he has the second lowest blood purity. If you think about it out of all the main characters in the second war only Hermione is below him on the list for magical purity, even Harry is above him in purity. I mean out of all the characters only Voldemort and Hermione don't have a witch and wizard as their parents. Which makes me wonder how they would react if they hadn't known. I'm sure people like Lucius's father and those that went to school with him would have known, but did Lucius and his generation know?
Racism is complex. It's wrong, but people form those beliefs for a reason, then often teach them to their children. My dad's mother died just after he turned 9. His family was poor and didn't live near any black people. At some point, he was sent to live with his oldest sister, who was married to a black man at the time. Unfortunately, this particular man was hateful and abusive. Since he was the only black person my dad knew, he thought all black people were like that. Fortunately, he never taught us to dislike people based on the color of their skin, but he did hold some strong beliefs. We couldn't invite black friends to sleepovers and he made it clear that he didn't want us dating black boys. We used to argue about things like that so much, but I never knew why he held those beliefs until my mom explained it to me after Daddy died.
"He really believed in his family values, that's something you can respect." No. No it's not. Not when those family values is racism. Just because someone blindly follows family values doesn't mean jack shit and should be praised for it. Most people I know who followed "family values" were actually really holding onto VERY racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs.
I never thought the comparison between the pureblood purists and Nazis (or any other sort of group) was a good one. Like you touched on it in this video, wizardkind has been pursued throughout history by muggles & they are quite almost exponentially outnumbered by muggles. To me, the wizard “race” of humans always seem to me a dying one, one struggling to stay alive between external factors and its internal conflicts. The equation of purist wizardkind to racists and Nazis is skipping over vast nuisances & is disingenuous at most. Not even getting into the sociopolitical context of wizards being persecuted throughout human history by every human culture that has existed, but purely on genetic basis. We don’t know the exact “genetic makeup” of magic, but it is safe to say that magic isn’t a dominant trait. This means that just because one muggle parent may have wizarding genes it doesn’t guarantee wizarding offspring at all. We know muggles carry wizarding genes, but these must be recessive or a more complex genetic code or function brought upon by magic only. This is evident because two muggle parents can breed a wizard offspring, meaning the wizarding gene must be within some of those two bloodlines. If the gene was dominant, any one parent with magical genes should be putting out magical offspring left and right at a rate more accelerated than what we can extrapolate from the canon. Now we get into the crossing of direct magic genes with muggle genes. Again, we can’t say 100% about the genetics involved, but it’s a safe bet that the mixing of magic & muggle genes can have a 50% chance of dealing out magic offspring and 50% chance of non-magical offspring. Then we take into account squibs. We don’t necessarily know the population of squibs in the Harry Potter universe at large, but I know of 3 or 4 squibs from canon, so this is also a safe bet that two magical parents very rarely, extremely rarely, give off non-magical offspring. But even then, even then, the odds are stacked against magickind. The best bet, having a 99.9999% chance of dealing off magical offspring, is pureblood breeding. It is clear, and logical, that interbreeding with muggles can decrease the chances of magical offspring. Thus, mass adoption & encouraging of interbreeding with muggles will, over time, dilute the magical potential & bloodline of wizardkind. This will lead to the birth of more and more non-magical offspring than magical offspring, who they themselves will go on to reproduce and make more non-magical offspring in a negative feeding cycle for wizardkind. With the odd “mudblood” here and there, not enough to replenish the losing numbers and declining birth rates of wizardkind. Not to mention their genetic pool & birth rates are already being reduced and affected by internal conflicts and deaths which seem to permeate the entire wizarding world. For wizards to so openly encourage and support interbreeding with muggles is a detriment to wizardkind. This by no means makes it right to hate or even murder muggles (not that muggles aren’t in large, hungry for wizard blood at the stake but that’s neither here nor there 😂). I think muggles and wizards can and should intermingle, I think they shouldn’t hate or be killing one another. I think if a wizard falls in love with a muggle then so be it. I don’t think mudbloods should be discriminated against, if anything, they should be applauded, as they are now the root of a new wizarding bloodline & should in my opinion, marry and reproduce with other wizardkind, to cement a new bloodline of pure magical genes, and expand the amount of wizards who can then go on and breed more wizards. All to say, I don’t think discrimination between the parties should occur, even less killing each other. But I also don’t think supporting interbreeding for the sake of inclusivity, and pc crap is good, it’s detrimental to the future of wizard and magical genes. I don’t think wizarding blood should be diluted through the generations, and I think muggle-borns should be praised and appreciated and used to build more pureblood families. Like this isn’t even a race or ethnicity difference, we’re quite literally talking about magic 😂 a clear advantage, making wizardkind better and more fit than muggles. Magickind could’ve exterminated muggle life on earth whenever they chose to quite easily. Wizardkind is obviously above and superior to muggles. I don’t see why people assume that whenever this is the case that it has to always lead to hate and discrimination. Shit, we all have differences that makes us unique, it just so happens that magic is a difference that is quite above all of ours 😂 I think magic blood should be preserved, not by force but by “magical patriotism” and pride. Again, muggle-borns should be welcomed with more than open arms.
In my personal opinion, I believe the Malfoys also hate Americans, both magical and non-magical. And I can most definitely see the Malfoys being mutant haters in the Marvel Universe. They would presumably hear about mutants through somebody in the Ministry of Magic and they would without a doubt be one of wizarding Britain's BIGGEST outspoken anti-mutant activists where they all have placed their feet down firmly on anti-mutant bigotry and sentiments other than activities, which would be derived from their prejudiced and bigoted hatred of muggles, muggle-borns, and part-creatures. And they would forcibly push for the Ministry of Magic to have all mutants, irrespective of their magical and non-magical blood statuses and nationalities to be branded as "dark creatures" via bribes of dirty money, which would derive from Umbitch's anti-werewolf legislation at the Ministry. And corrupt, dishonest, and crooked politicians like Fumbling Fudge would readily agree with the Malfoys to pass such legislation in the wizarding world based on him being a bootlicker and apple polisher to dark families, especially the Malfoys.
Wow so they actually begun as the minority and they were doing all this because they were upset. That makes a lot of sense because I heard about the salem witch trials and i thought well no wonder.
I mean let's be honest, even today our seniors sometimes compare what they don't understand with the devil( devils work, devils device etc). We may be the first generation where there is more objective view towards science...
I agree why people followed Voldemort and Grindelwald wizards and witches had been hunted and burned probably since the beginning by muggles so to me the wizarding Wars was more of a revolution where the people from the old families wanted revenge for being oppressed and making the oppressor feel what they had felt. And the reason for for pure bloods hate of half bloods/ muggle born and those who married them is the same as what happened to many women who have had relationships with the germans during ww2 they were punished after the war for collaborating with the enemy who had caused the nation so much pain and suffering
It's a prejudice. It's a fictional prejudice invented by JK Rowling, but it's still a prejudice. The rest is excuses. Rowling has a good understanding of human nature.
THE Malfoy perspective goes beyond simple racism. It's much closer to the fascistic Eugenics perspective of the supporters of the III Reich. She was definitely imitating it pretty heavily from the half-blood background of Voldemort (with the self-loathing that went with it) to the Death Eaters (Autumwaffen), etc.
While I appreciate a deep dive into lore, I’m not a fan of trying to discover “why” someone is a bigot. It’s like saying “well you see, the Malfoy’s hate muggles because historically muggles have been violent and bigoted against wizards, so they ACTUALLY had it coming”. Hate and logic are not bedfellows, and trying to assign logic to hate just legitimizes it.
„We FINALLY KNOW WHY..“. No we don’t really know for shure. You just tell us a story YOU think MAY be true. Nothing new is told in the video. Klickbait title, like almost all of your „REVEALED“ videos.
When you go back and think of the many witch hunts that happened over the centuries, it makes sense that there are wizards who would despise them/reject them and even go to the extreme of wanting a pure blood supremacy. When you look at the matter through that lense, it has a different perspective.
If you are talking about the real life situation then you are wrong
A hatred of Muggles makes sense, but pure blood supremacy is a different story
@@theNicholas1117 I don't think they mean it as having purenloods on charge and ruling with an iron fist. I think it was meant to be: wizards only, keep muggles out. Which in many cases would also keep muggleborns out. It was similar to how the MACUSA used to run the American wizard community.
@@elizabethkelley2559 true, but you know Muggle borns would be persecuted by the muggles as well.
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I disagree completely. The steps from hatred to supremacy, especially at the societal level aren’t that many. And the magical society is divided. And pure-blood supremacy, at that level, I would argue, would be the strongest in periods where the society is divided.
I mean wouldn’t it be obvious why ideals like that develop when they see other witches and wizards turn on their own kind. “Fraternising” with the enemy who hunted and killed them? And not only are they siding with the muggles, but in so doing they’re putting all the other magicals at risk too, exposing the magical community. Moreover it’s not just a point of view of “they don’t accept/hate the muggle-borns” either because they do have magical blood but they don’t conform to the society that’s welcoming them. The society that ultimately wouldn’t kill them for what they are (ideally). Like let’s use African-American people as an example. They have black heritage in their blood but that doesn’t mean they inherently get to speak in name of African people who actually live in Africa. Born and raised, who live their life, and enjoy and suffer the perks and downsides of that life, the country, and culture. And yet here they are, muggle borns coming to teach purebloods how to live their life. Causing the magical society to change “in their favour”, to make them feel comfortable, accepted, included. Many values and traditions get slandered and defined dark just because of outsiders who don’t understand how their world really work. Or at least that’s how magical families like the Malfoy could see it across the years.
Magical society is really traditional and slow, (not to add prejudicial against other magical beings too) I would see it as a normal evolution when it suddenly starts changing, that they are repulsed, sceptical and hateful.
They don’t interact at all with muggles so everything that comes from them is foreign and alien like. And let’s not forget that this is like practically spitting at their own past “oh you’ve hunted and killed my own people for centuries in the past, and despite you not really having done anything to repair that and make you trustworthy, I’m not just gonna trust you anyway and accept you but I’m even gonna make you comfortable and change my home to adapt it to you too”.
How could you trust anything but pure blood supremacy then?
So I’m just saying that at least for me it makes sense. Dislike evolves into hatred and hatred evolves into supremacy.
And it would make for a great nuanced story exploring how these themes would be addressed in a modern magical political atmosphere.
There was one Malfoy who tried to court Elizabeth I of England. She rejected him and it’s theorized he put a charm on her causing her refusal to marry.
Pureblood witches and wizards hate muggles because they are more powerful they should be leading the world but they have been forced into hiding. When you look at what a slytherin traits we are clever, resourceful, ambitious, and determined. It doesn't make sense to us to be under the heel of a weaker species because of the so called morals of others.
The whole system goes against who we are, it doesn't make sense for witches and wizards to hide their power, it doesn't make sense to enchant our homes and practice magic in the dark. It doesn't make sense that children become obscurials because they have to suppress their abilities. Witches and Wizards have a gift and too many wizards are happy to hide in the shadows.
I wouldn't like muggles either.
As an absolute Elizabeth fan, I SUPPORT MALFOY GETTING TURNED DOWN BY A BOELYN WHO'S MOM WAS ACCUSED OF BEING A WITCH
I'd say that is more of a curse than a charm.
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What’s the difference?
@@brettlarch8050 curse is bad, charm is good.
I understand just fine why The Malfoys and other pure bloods hated muggles….The British Witch Trials, the Salem Witch Trials. Also, the persecution of anyone believed to have practiced witchcraft or thought to have abilities.
I would love a founding families story. To see the troubles they faced, the Magic they created, and the way they banded together would be really interesting.
I loved that Lucius chose his family, say what you want about his other actions but it takes heart to do that.
I like that you pointed out that Lucius chose his family over the agenda he had been conditioned to uphold. Some people seem to forget that.
THIS IS NOT TO SAY LUCIUS' DEEDS WEREN'T HORRENDOUS, just that amongst all that darkness and twistedness, there was a speck of light.
Yeah he didn't fully redeem himself I feel like jk knew that his crimes against the wizarding world isn't redeemable
exactly I recently mentioned this myself
after hearing one of the death eaters say:
"he dont have the stomach like hisfather"
during draco's 1st assassination attempt
I figured lucius did the bulk for his family
Lucius actually knew love, that's why. It was returned, and strong enough to overcome a lifetime of conditioning, in the end. He loved his wife and child, and thus, at the very end, made a choice in their favor. No, he's not redeemable, but it was one of those small but pivotal times when that emotion made all the difference in a very difficult situation.
Funny how just the surname "Bad Faith" contradicts their first names, Lucius means light, yet he turned to darkness, Draco means dragon, a creature associated with bravery and strength, yet he always fled like a coward(he deserved far better though), and Narcissa meant narcissist, yet she was still the most selfless compared to the other Malfoys...
The Malfoys just perfected inherited trauma, it sounds like. Of course, of course. Nothing but the best for the Malfoys.
In seriousness, inherited trauma is still being studied but does seem to be a likely real thing. It does not seem to last 1000 years, but we have only recently started to study it, so, who knows.
Tbf, during the beginning of the series especially, and in Magical Beasts, people in the Wizarding world were extremely cautious about showing off.
We are shown the aftermath. Not what lead up to it as a result.
1000 years is a long time. I'm sure it's gotten better. If we take a look at our own human history, we have our ups and our downs. Realistically, it wouldn't be shocking or surprising if the ups and downs occurred for the muggles and non muggles.
the malfoys is the definition of generational trauma lmao
I feel like Dean puts a lot of effort and he should get more subs and likes than he does he is one of the hardest working UA-camrs I don't know him but it's a fact
Vids don't even have captions my friend
He used to have loads. But changed the channel name and lost tonnes of subs.
One can only sub once.
@@paulcowlishaw Yeah remember when he had to change the name, I felt so bad when that happened.
I think he described in one of his vid a while ago that there were copyright issues and a lot popular videos got taken down from his channel
Glad you are better Dean!!
welcome back
One thing I kinda believe is that Lucius Malfoy really was Imperiused into taking the Dark Mark. I can't really see him consenting to becoming anyone's underling. A silent ally who provided funds and resources to the movement while keeping his own hands clean, but not a servant.
And of course, once the Dark Mark was on his arm, Voldemort had direct control over Malfoy, so the Imperius Curse was redundant for most purposes. Thus Lucius Malfoy didn't lie about being Imperiused; he just obfuscated about the extent of his volitional collusion. And paid some hefty bribes as well.
Dark Mark doesn't mind control people, though. If it did, Karkaroff wouldn't have been able to think of fleeing. And Snape couldn't have betrayed Voldemort when he killed the Potters.
The Mark did not mind control people, but it did allow Voldemort to locate them and kill them if he d wanted. Pretty much like the most powerful psychopath keeping you under a tracker. There was no way they could have escaped the dark lord chasing them down.
So you d think twice before betraying the man in a position like that.
Also: why would Voldemort even need the imperius curse? He was a master manipulator AND could literally read minds. You would THINK about betraying him, and he would know exactly where you were at.
Aka: Snape might have been a jerk, but it took guts (and strengh) to do what he did. Didn t it?
U do make good points on everything Dean. Hopefully Draco with his own son will do a better job and put all that behind them forever.
Scorpius is growing up without the muggle/mugglebornhate, because Draco changed his mind about muggleborns and muggles, to Lucius huge dismay.
And His wife Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) Abandone her pureblood belfes and rise Scorpius, by "Saying all muggleborns must be treated with respect" before she died
Long time no see Dean, glad your feel well can't wait to see what you've got in store.
Just saw this video my sincerest compliments to the content creator of this wonderful video as well as it's channel holder when I say thank you for another wonderful video in spite of your recently publicly announced sinus infection I hope you have improved I have not even watched nor listen to this video but I'm just going to say"Abraxis Malfoy feared what he wouldn't allow himself to comprehend"now I'm going to watch the video thank you and have a nice day.
Nice to see you back Dean
Scorpius Draco's son not only befriended Harry Potter's half son Albums he fell for Ron Weasley 's daughter Rose in The Cursed Child
Albus Severus Potter is Harry's secondborn son, not half-son.
Still, it's pretty awesome that both Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter were sorted into Slytherin.
@@thecajunphoenix Meant to say half Muggle predictive text lol , Still it is a good story
I think it is also as well that pure blood wizards see mundane born witches and wizards as a threat.
They fear that traditions would be lost with mundane BØRNS coming in.
One of the best examples I can think of is Hermione.
She genuinely meant well, but the way she handled the house elves is a really good example.
House elves, love to work and serve people, and she viewed it as slavery, simply because they weren’t paid.
Instead of actually speaking to the elves and finding out their side, and finding out what day wanted, she just took matters into her own hands and started knitting items for the elves, thus tricking them into freeing themselves When they may not want to be freed, or it could be detrimental to the health of the elves to be freed because they feed off the magic from the people and place that they serve.
The elves refused to clean the parts of Hogwarts where Hermione left the clothes for them, and instead of consulting the elves again about what day wanted, she just doubled down her efforts.
Hermione is probably not the first, nor will be the last to do this, and so what if mundane, born witches and wizards have actually offended, pure blood wizards time and again through their ignorance, even if they have good intentions,
Also traditional holidays such as samhain, and you’ll where replaced with a more Western eyes version of Christmas and Halloween which we see at Hogwarts every year.
Also, another reason is mundane. People still continue to miss treat magical‘s.
A group of mundane boys attacked Albus Dumbledore‘s sister to the point where she forced herself to stop practising magic, and Harry was constantly miss treated by his relatives because he was magical and they weren’t, and it is well known that Petunia hated magic, because she was jealous of Lily, and that jealousy turned into hatred and bitterness, so, even in an enlightened period of history, magical‘s are still miss treated by mundane’s, so it is no wonder that magical’s continue to miss trust, Mondays and have disdain for them I’m not saying it is right, but I understand why it happens.
Also, sorry about the mistakes I’m using dictation and it doesn’t always pick up what I want to say
It would be interesting if J.K. Rowling, gave us information on the very first wizards and the communities they lived in
With her fantastic beasts movies sucking as much as they do, I think the saga has ended, and our only hope for good lore could be the game.
The Malfoys probably arrived in England during the Norman Invasion seeing as their name is Old French. It would also explain their aristocratic background.
And yet they followed a half blood Tom riddle
Drako Malloy had a redemption role in the end, especially after Harry rescued him from the room of requirement fire, when everyone thought Harry was dead, And then suddenly alive in the courtyard, it was Drako that threw his wand to Harry to defend from Voldemorts strike. This scene was cut in the movie and that was a shame. But in the end Drako was ashamed of the choices he made and acted to help Harry at a critical moment. He redeemed his family name and dishonor.
it doesn't happen in the book, so he doesn't have any redemption role except for when he didn't identify Harry in Malfoy Manor
Draco Malfoy
Check your spelling
i really think he was brainwashed all this time, but that he's not a bad person in the end. he's not good, but he's not evil either.
@@Affluent_Pomegranate maybe they're foreign and the spelling is different in their country. in france he's called "drago malefoy"
@@lechantdesmots97 😳😳
What doesn't make sense to me is, Malloy hated muggle borns and all who were not pure blood, but Voldimort was not pure blood.
Similar to how Aryan Pure Germans joined Nazi party, which was lead by Hitler who had significant Jewish Ancestry.
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 That was mere speculation and not proven, there was a lot of inbreeding in his family tree, but no actual proof of Jewish ancestry. He, however didn't fit his own ideal of superiority, being a short brunette with brown eyes.
I always root for the villains because they are usually not wrong. I agree and relate to them more. Voldemort and the Malfoys were my favorite characters in Harry Potter. I was happy to know that Harry could have been a Slitherin. 😂😂😂
You should check out Super Carlin Brothers' videos on what would happen if Harry had been sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. Malfoy's story arc is my favorite part of the entire thing, it's worth a watch!!
My friend I’ve been making those videos for years, I haven’t got to check out the guys version of it but I will definitely
@@HarryPotterFolklore yeah I've seen yours too! They're great! 😊
@Harry Potter Folklore video idea for you Dean. Did Sabrina The Teenage Witch go to Ilvamorny.
You got to infer from the novels that the Malfoy family was definitely one of the very early families because. Their vault is way more secure and it even says the older families have more secure bolts down in the dungeon areas Harry's vault is not secured by a dragon or anything like that and his family goes back pretty pretty far yes it's broken off of the pebble family but still Harry's fault is nowhere near as heavily guarded as the malfoys or as far down in the bolts so I would assume that that's a Malfoy voltage at least a decade or more older
I think it does also help explain why they walked away, but something else I wondered was if the Weasley family hated pureblood ideology, why did they marry only into magical families until Ron and Hermione?
Who says they did? We’ve only seen the parents, but not any Weasley aunt and uncles.
@@samiam2088 They wouldn't have been included in the list. Perhaps there were some relatives who did before Ron and Hermione, but either way, they hate pureblood ideology, which was a thing for over 900 years before the book's publication, and they still got listed because they never intermarried.
I agree. Social conditioning is a powerful thing.
I love all your videos and the
content is amazing x
So the Malfoy name comes indeed from the French Malefoy (Ill faith). JK Rowling indeed knows what she's doing as far as linguistics of names goes.
So for the Malfoy's it really was all about family
Yes. And while Draco is devastated when his wife dies not long after their son Scorpius is born, Scorpius is also "Someone (for Draco) to Remember Her By", and he also fulfills Lucius's version of "I Want Grandkids".
Thanks!
Great video. I could tell that you put sm time, energy, and effort into making all of your videos. Btw, I do agree with you about this being the source of the Malfoys' extremist views against all non-Pure-blooded witches and wizards.
Draco: Hey, my name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist. I despise muggles and mudbloods. I hate Gryffindor house but I love Slytherin house. And my parents work for the man who killed your parents. Wanna be my friend?
Awesome video! Loved this!
Great theory but his boss Voldemort was a half breed as was Snape so their reticence to interact with anyone that's not exactly like them is very capricious because it's based solely on their mood apparently..... somebody offers them enough money or power the concern about their blood status goes right out the window
This is another great video but, while magical people might just be exploited, disrespected, killed, and persecuted by the rest of the world just as they were in the past, I would like to think that there are enough decent and open-minded people that the magical community would still be accepted by enough people that the blood- purists and the people who want to dominate or destroy the Muggle community would realize the folly and the pointlessness of their actions and be content to live and let live. Especially since the Gaunt family and others prove that holding on too tightly to blood purity and outdated ideologies is stupid and empty.
Reality is that magical people still need to live hiding, they cant say anyone they are magial other wise they would be hunted dows, so basically they are supressed minority who wish to live freem fight back. Only difference is they have magic so if they are going to be hunted down they can take thousands with them.
I think Pureblood ideology is tottaly fine, it ensures that magical blood will be carried on. it dosent mean you need to hate others who act differently, but you can have you close circle who have same values as you. So you can find mates for your childrens and ensure your family line endures thousands of years. Thouse who are willing to mix they blood too much will risk that magical ability will be quenced in family line. I offere, That Hermione ancestors were magical, but for generations they skiped magical ability and in Hermione it surfaced again.
If anything the thing that would happen is that everyone would be trying to get DNA from the wizards for their kids because they have genetically based super powers
Seems to me the Malfoy family had a fair amount of halfblood family members until the magical community went underground? Significantly more recently than ten centuries ago?
I think Lucias malfloy for I would agree with you and Lucias melfoy would be wrong. I think that's how they perceive their motive but it's more about an increasing number of half blood and muggle born witches and wizards. It's also about spikes in wealth from unpredictable quarters. I think subconsciously it was about maintaining the old balance of power more or less. They were worried about the replacement of old wizard and families with a lot of half blood and muggleborn wizards would result in the loss of their wealth and prestige.
I agree with you Orion. It's similar to the replacement theory we are dealing with now in America. The pure-blood wizards would see powerful half-bloods like Harmony as a threat to their prestige and power.
And Lucius knew Voldemort was half muggle. What I think, Lucius would follow Voldemort. Let Voldemort do most of the dirty work. Subjugation and extermination of a good portion of the muggle population.
Then exposed Voldemort for being half muggle and take over.
I can sympathize with the persecuted. But I cannot sympathize with the bigoted. I can sympathize with the desire of the persecuted to unite for mutual support. But I cannot sympathize with limiting that support to a few.
Same here.
I think you are absolutely right, I think it makes perfect sense that Magic-Kind would be prejudiced against Muggles due to the way witches and warlocks were treated throughout the ages. Bravo 👏🏻 excellent video!!
Don't remember where I heard it but I believe the Malfoy's made their fortune by trading with muggles. Didn't really address this source of their fortune in this video. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this. Perhaps they were (from their point) of scamming the muggles. Trying to think of ways where they maintain their hatred of pure bloods, and yet make their money from the muggles.
Love the content
There has been something that I always took issue with that maybe you could answer for us. In book 7, voldemort went to the previous address of grigorovich and found a new family living there, it heavily implied that he killed them and did so essentially in the same way he killed Harry's parents. So my question is, why didn't the same ancient power of "love" cause his curse to again rebound and strip him from his body?
Because voldemort didn't ask the mother to step aside. Although the mothsr shielded her kids, she didn't have an opportunity to offer herself instead of the kids like lily did for Harry
It may have been a muggle family that moved in, thus, any potential magic would not have manifested in the needed manner.
People are worse than that when it comes to animals.
Didn't they go into the background and start of the world of wizards in magical beast's
I've always tought they were more like a Black supremacy group than actual Nazis. It's important to remark that doesn't make it okay. Discussing this got me kicked out of tons of Harry Potter clubs online. for some reason people in real life agree with me, but never online. I wouldn't personally have had the guts to post this after my experiences with people on the internet.
Thank you Dean for these
No matter what the context is, I am always so distracted by Lucius' prettyness :D
I don’t blame them considering they had had a long brutal history It was lucky that according to the child Canon Draco reforms and raise his son scorpus to be a decent person
The logic is sound, and I'd even say that from that stance, the belief would be at least somewhat justified.
Hatred is never something that just appears out of thin air. It's either a response to a past wrong committed by the now hated party, real or percieved, or evolved from fear of a threat the hated party represents, real or percieved, or both. You don't hate those you see als lesser. You may tell yourself that to feel better. But in reality, you hate those you think wronged you, those you think will wrong you, and those who you think wronged you and will do so again. Those you think of as weaker are those you bully if you're an asshole, or pity, or protect if you're a perticularely nice person, but you don't hate them.
There are a lot of hints that the wizarding world, the creation of Hogwarts, the Statute of Secrecy, and many more things in the wizarding world, are the way they are due to the witch hunts. But that doesn't align with actual history very well. For starters, the first witch hunts were in the mid 1300s and continued all the way into the late 1700s. Before that, European Kingdoms were very much concerned with waging wars against non-christians and converting as many people as possible to christianity. The Celtic Druids and Germanic Völur were both very well respected parts of their respective societies believed to have powerful magic, mostly for healing, fortune telling, and communication with gods and spirits. Even older societies had shamans, medicine men, and similar professions, where people who are believed to have magic powers are held in high esteem within the society, to a simmilar degree as a king or a chieftain.
Druids and Völur, among others, are theorized to have later joined/merged together into what was later called witchcraft.
The fact that the Wizarding World gives very little details on that, and those details only match actual history in very few select instances, may be to the fact that JK Rowling slept in history class just as every Hogwarts student sleeps in the presence of Professor Binns. So what Mrs Rowling knows about history comes close to "Literally Nothing". As in, if we told her castles in Germany were all built by Hitler, yes all of them, she'd have no reason to not believe us, because she doesn't know any better.
I disagree with this video it has been stated on the wizarding world site that many malfoy' s integrated themselves in high muggle circle' s. Constantly earning favor from muggle royalty and even adding muggle artifacts to their collection. As a matter of fact the malfoys were very opposed to the international statue of secrecy when it was announced since it meant they would lose their connections with the muggle elite. The only reason they supported it later was because it was already passed into law and it became clear the ministry of magic was the new heart of power. So as not to lose any power they pretented to have supported it from the start and denied having ever been on speaking terms with muggles.
I also despise muggles.
We know that, okay, no need to tell us what we already know
Even though your father was also a Muggle.
@Lady Luly True. His sperm donor was disgusting to abandon him while he was still a fetus inside Merope Gaunt Riddle's womb.
Love your deep dives!
How powerful would a wizard be if they could understand science and technology.
Nigh-unstoppable.
Pls never retire
Whole heartedly agree well said
However side note on what I just said. We never actually got to see the Malfoy volt we saw the lestranges fault and I don't think they ever mentioned any of the lineage of the lestranges
Both surnames sound French, so it's not a hard stretch to figure that both families have roots in that region and immigrated to Britain at some point, though the Lestranges might have come from somewhere else before being given/cursed with their surname (strange or _foreign._ ) I always found it a touch heavy-handed that an antagonist family had a surname that is basically a mangled and mis-spelled word that means 'in bad faith' in French; personally, I wouldn't put it past some far-past Malfoy having double-crossed someone and their family been cursed with a nomenmantic curse to warn others of their duplicitous nature.
Why would Draco want to befriend Harry? He’s not a pure blood, unless having a muggle born parent doesn’t count. Truly curious. I like the series, but I’m not a potterhead.
Draco Malfoy also thinks he would be a better friend for Harry Potter than the equally pureblood but Muggle-friendly Ron Weasley would be.
i think most native americans can understand that best.
my gramma wanted everyone to be enrollable, but on the rez staying purist can be dangerous incest wise.
not sure there are enough wizards for that to be a problem thou lol
That should be a video how the Wizarding race first began
why would Draco want to be friends with Harry ? after all Harry was a mudblood as they say, could it have been to get Harry into contact with the Dark Lord were they could kill him
I wonder if we're going to see any malfoys Hogwarts Legacy
How do you get all this info? You reading books and watching movies I haven’t seen?😂😂
They were also secretly watching a lot of James Bond. Hence why 11 year old Draco introduces himself like '‘And my name’s Malfoy, Draco Malfoy.’' 😂
Seems legit.
Not a good point, I'm afraid. Do you remember that burning witches was completely pointless according to PoA? Actual witches and wizards were almost never burned, unless they were too young to have been trained, or in other words: Muggleborns.
Muggleborns were the only witches and wizards who were actually burned, and now they are the ones persecuted by the likes of Malfoy. But many witches and wizards don't have an ounce of logic (who said that again?).
That was the info we got, but probably because it was a children's book, so Rowling couldn't write how wizarding children most likely were murdered
@@Phoenix1984DK uh she wrote about Ariana being killed, she wrote about rabbits being hung, it wouldn't be too gruesome to mention that considering plenty of kids die through out the books
So, think again dude.
@@jakdekayen never burned alive
I can actually see this.
His Dad looks like Arthas or Sauron before his corruption?
Your story does sound very plausible. However, it does reinforce a big question that I've had about this series. How many of Voldemort's followers knew that out of the bigger characters in the second war he has the second lowest blood purity. If you think about it out of all the main characters in the second war only Hermione is below him on the list for magical purity, even Harry is above him in purity. I mean out of all the characters only Voldemort and Hermione don't have a witch and wizard as their parents. Which makes me wonder how they would react if they hadn't known. I'm sure people like Lucius's father and those that went to school with him would have known, but did Lucius and his generation know?
Does that mean that a Malfoy was on the wizard government along with Harry’s great grandfather ?
Let's look at Lucius for a momente. Oh, yeah, I could be looking at Lucius all my life.
You’re on point
Racism is complex. It's wrong, but people form those beliefs for a reason, then often teach them to their children. My dad's mother died just after he turned 9. His family was poor and didn't live near any black people. At some point, he was sent to live with his oldest sister, who was married to a black man at the time. Unfortunately, this particular man was hateful and abusive. Since he was the only black person my dad knew, he thought all black people were like that. Fortunately, he never taught us to dislike people based on the color of their skin, but he did hold some strong beliefs. We couldn't invite black friends to sleepovers and he made it clear that he didn't want us dating black boys. We used to argue about things like that so much, but I never knew why he held those beliefs until my mom explained it to me after Daddy died.
I mean he is not wrong
@@crow_g1639 No, I agree with Dean. I was just giving an real life example.
Bigotry, racism, money, power. Pick any two for any horrible human behavior. Wizards are no exception.
There are people who think you need a reason to hate Muggles?
I have a question .
Why do French insult English people ?
hatred is not born from nothing
"He really believed in his family values, that's something you can respect." No. No it's not. Not when those family values is racism. Just because someone blindly follows family values doesn't mean jack shit and should be praised for it. Most people I know who followed "family values" were actually really holding onto VERY racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs.
Yes I agree.
Well they earned money from a muggle
I never thought the comparison between the pureblood purists and Nazis (or any other sort of group) was a good one. Like you touched on it in this video, wizardkind has been pursued throughout history by muggles & they are quite almost exponentially outnumbered by muggles. To me, the wizard “race” of humans always seem to me a dying one, one struggling to stay alive between external factors and its internal conflicts.
The equation of purist wizardkind to racists and Nazis is skipping over vast nuisances & is disingenuous at most.
Not even getting into the sociopolitical context of wizards being persecuted throughout human history by every human culture that has existed, but purely on genetic basis.
We don’t know the exact “genetic makeup” of magic, but it is safe to say that magic isn’t a dominant trait. This means that just because one muggle parent may have wizarding genes it doesn’t guarantee wizarding offspring at all. We know muggles carry wizarding genes, but these must be recessive or a more complex genetic code or function brought upon by magic only. This is evident because two muggle parents can breed a wizard offspring, meaning the wizarding gene must be within some of those two bloodlines. If the gene was dominant, any one parent with magical genes should be putting out magical offspring left and right at a rate more accelerated than what we can extrapolate from the canon. Now we get into the crossing of direct magic genes with muggle genes. Again, we can’t say 100% about the genetics involved, but it’s a safe bet that the mixing of magic & muggle genes can have a 50% chance of dealing out magic offspring and 50% chance of non-magical offspring. Then we take into account squibs. We don’t necessarily know the population of squibs in the Harry Potter universe at large, but I know of 3 or 4 squibs from canon, so this is also a safe bet that two magical parents very rarely, extremely rarely, give off non-magical offspring. But even then, even then, the odds are stacked against magickind.
The best bet, having a 99.9999% chance of dealing off magical offspring, is pureblood breeding. It is clear, and logical, that interbreeding with muggles can decrease the chances of magical offspring. Thus, mass adoption & encouraging of interbreeding with muggles will, over time, dilute the magical potential & bloodline of wizardkind. This will lead to the birth of more and more non-magical offspring than magical offspring, who they themselves will go on to reproduce and make more non-magical offspring in a negative feeding cycle for wizardkind. With the odd “mudblood” here and there, not enough to replenish the losing numbers and declining birth rates of wizardkind. Not to mention their genetic pool & birth rates are already being reduced and affected by internal conflicts and deaths which seem to permeate the entire wizarding world.
For wizards to so openly encourage and support interbreeding with muggles is a detriment to wizardkind. This by no means makes it right to hate or even murder muggles (not that muggles aren’t in large, hungry for wizard blood at the stake but that’s neither here nor there 😂). I think muggles and wizards can and should intermingle, I think they shouldn’t hate or be killing one another. I think if a wizard falls in love with a muggle then so be it. I don’t think mudbloods should be discriminated against, if anything, they should be applauded, as they are now the root of a new wizarding bloodline & should in my opinion, marry and reproduce with other wizardkind, to cement a new bloodline of pure magical genes, and expand the amount of wizards who can then go on and breed more wizards.
All to say, I don’t think discrimination between the parties should occur, even less killing each other. But I also don’t think supporting interbreeding for the sake of inclusivity, and pc crap is good, it’s detrimental to the future of wizard and magical genes. I don’t think wizarding blood should be diluted through the generations, and I think muggle-borns should be praised and appreciated and used to build more pureblood families.
Like this isn’t even a race or ethnicity difference, we’re quite literally talking about magic 😂 a clear advantage, making wizardkind better and more fit than muggles. Magickind could’ve exterminated muggle life on earth whenever they chose to quite easily. Wizardkind is obviously above and superior to muggles. I don’t see why people assume that whenever this is the case that it has to always lead to hate and discrimination. Shit, we all have differences that makes us unique, it just so happens that magic is a difference that is quite above all of ours 😂
I think magic blood should be preserved, not by force but by “magical patriotism” and pride. Again, muggle-borns should be welcomed with more than open arms.
In my personal opinion, I believe the Malfoys also hate Americans, both magical and non-magical.
And I can most definitely see the Malfoys being mutant haters in the Marvel Universe.
They would presumably hear about mutants through somebody in the Ministry of Magic and they would without a doubt be one of wizarding Britain's BIGGEST outspoken anti-mutant activists where they all have placed their feet down firmly on anti-mutant bigotry and sentiments other than activities, which would be derived from their prejudiced and bigoted hatred of muggles, muggle-borns, and part-creatures. And they would forcibly push for the Ministry of Magic to have all mutants, irrespective of their magical and non-magical blood statuses and nationalities to be branded as "dark creatures" via bribes of dirty money, which would derive from Umbitch's anti-werewolf legislation at the Ministry. And corrupt, dishonest, and crooked politicians like Fumbling Fudge would readily agree with the Malfoys to pass such legislation in the wizarding world based on him being a bootlicker and apple polisher to dark families, especially the Malfoys.
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Wow so they actually begun as the minority and they were doing all this because they were upset. That makes a lot of sense because I heard about the salem witch trials and i thought well no wonder.
I mean let's be honest, even today our seniors sometimes compare what they don't understand with the devil( devils work, devils device etc). We may be the first generation where there is more objective view towards science...
Well, as a Boomer, I can safely say you are in fact very mistaken.
I agree why people followed Voldemort and Grindelwald wizards and witches had been hunted and burned probably since the beginning by muggles so to me the wizarding Wars was more of a revolution where the people from the old families wanted revenge for being oppressed and making the oppressor feel what they had felt. And the reason for for pure bloods hate of half bloods/ muggle born and those who married them is the same as what happened to many women who have had relationships with the germans during ww2 they were punished after the war for collaborating with the enemy who had caused the nation so much pain and suffering
Y can't people let go of harry
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I loved Lucius Malfoy til the last movie where I began to see him as a coward. And yes, I did read the books too.
Weird! Very wealthy & member of a founding family & yet became' just second fiddle followers... 😅😂🤣
It's a prejudice. It's a fictional prejudice invented by JK Rowling, but it's still a prejudice. The rest is excuses. Rowling has a good understanding of human nature.
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Because the Malfoy’s are Republicans?
It's human crap in my opinion
THE Malfoy perspective goes beyond simple racism. It's much closer to the fascistic Eugenics perspective of the supporters of the III Reich. She was definitely imitating it pretty heavily from the half-blood background of Voldemort (with the self-loathing that went with it) to the Death Eaters (Autumwaffen), etc.
Well didn't Muggles burn witches and wizards and destroyed families in the process. I'd hate them too.
While I appreciate a deep dive into lore, I’m not a fan of trying to discover “why” someone is a bigot. It’s like saying “well you see, the Malfoy’s hate muggles because historically muggles have been violent and bigoted against wizards, so they ACTUALLY had it coming”.
Hate and logic are not bedfellows, and trying to assign logic to hate just legitimizes it.
„We FINALLY KNOW WHY..“. No we don’t really know for shure. You just tell us a story YOU think MAY be true. Nothing new is told in the video. Klickbait title, like almost all of your „REVEALED“ videos.
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