“Any woman can weep without tears, and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
If there is anything certain about the Potterverse, it is that there is an absolute gulf between Us and Them. There are Muggles and their opposites: Witches and Wizards.
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---And… the old Pureblood families have had a millennium to LEARN this. The Hogwarts Quill and Book have been training them: if your kids don’t show up on the Registry at birth, ABUSE ‘em. That’ll force ‘em to prove themselves magic (if anything can)….I was under the impression that families aren't told anything about a child's status on the registry until it's the appropriate time for the child to receive hir Hogwarts letter. For instance, even though Neville's name was added when he was eight, his family didn't know for certain that he'd been accepted until he received his letter three years later ( ... )
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MalfaldaI have spoken before now about the Weasley cousin who made it quite a long way into 'Goblet of Fire' before I cut her. I really liked her as a character and did not want to sacrifice her, but she just wasn't doing the job she was supposed to do so she had to go ( ... )
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Wait a second, wouldn't that make her a Muggleborn Slytherin? And a Weasley Slytherin too! I guess her Dad's a Squib technically, but she's still got two magicless parents and would've been raised Muggle (which is the main complaint against Muggleborns; "they don't know our ways").
I wonder how Mafalda would've done in Slytherin, considering her background, her peers are comfortable enough around her to talk to her at least. Maybe the Slyths aren't as awful as we've been led to believe by Harry's narration!
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