theatrical_muse: What words would you like to see added to/removed from common use?
Pure-blood.
Half-blood.
Half-breed.
Terms to put down a person, to label them something and in a way encasing them to that word alone, should be removed. And not just in the wizarding world, but in general. It is a rather idealistic way of thinking, and I am well aware of that, but at the same time it shouldn't be. It should be something that can be attained. Something that can be achieved by simply changing the way people are seen, or how things are approached.
In the end, those things have nothing to do with the purity of the blood, and to determine how someone should be treated or how their lives should be because of it... I still fail to understand it.
After all the years that have passed, the wars that have been fought (or perhaps it is because of them) I just... I do not understand it. By now, truth be told, I am not sure if I ever will.
Half-blood.
Half-breed.
Terms to put down a person, to label them something and in a way encasing them to that word alone, should be removed. And not just in the wizarding world, but in general. It is a rather idealistic way of thinking, and I am well aware of that, but at the same time it shouldn't be. It should be something that can be attained. Something that can be achieved by simply changing the way people are seen, or how things are approached.
In the end, those things have nothing to do with the purity of the blood, and to determine how someone should be treated or how their lives should be because of it... I still fail to understand it.
After all the years that have passed, the wars that have been fought (or perhaps it is because of them) I just... I do not understand it. By now, truth be told, I am not sure if I ever will.