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Muggles set to join pure-blood society?
Muggle culture continues to throw up new permutations and the odd amusing take on the Harry Potter story which JK Rowling unleashed on an unsuspecting Muggle public.
In the latest incident, Muggle politicians in America, having already declared themselves 'anglo-saxons' (presumably in solidarity with Gryffindor's Heir) are now calling themselves pure-bloods!
The paragons of wizarding society at the end of the cypress tree lined lane, will be choking up their tea-soaked biscuits at knowing that they have been joined in their pure-blood mania by Muggles without the slightest drop of magical blood in their veins.
'Vice News on Wednesday reported on a new trend among some in the anti-vaccine community who are now referring to themselves as "purebloods."
The publication notes that the term is what the villainous Death Eaters in JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" books refer to themselves as, and that Rowling created the term with the intention of "drawing parallels with the Nazi doctrine of the 'master race.' " '
https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxxers-purebloods/
As usual, the Muggle understanding of wizarding terms would be helped by a large gulp of Messie's Mind Unclogging Solution.
Pure-blood is not a term invented by either Death Eaters or JK Rowling. It has existed for over a thousand years since before the time of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin's quarrel over the fate of Hogwarts and the latter's belief that only pure-blood wizards were worthy of being taught magic.
The most notable feature of pure-bloods is their rejection of unnatural ideas and touches, be that pigs or any food or potion that is not prepared correctly.
As the Muggle 'anti-vaxxers' claim to reject unnatural Muggle medicine (a potion called a vaccine), they could qualify to be pure-bloods in a sense. They are obviously mental kin to wizards and the Sacred 28, but curious readers will want to know when these right-wing Muggles will adopt the other characteristic tendencies of the hissing set. There is no sign yet that The Grump intends to launch a second Prohibition, ban pigmeat or lead his Muggle followers to don black masks and burqas.