An Interesting Obsevation On The Paenting Skills of Lucius Malfoy

So, in my Potter class today, Ashlyn brought up a super interesting point.

We were discussing the scene in CoS where Draco called Hermione a Mudblood. The class was talking about how it's a racial slur and how that's a big theme in the whole book. Okay, actually I have two things to talk about.

First. There was a guy in the classroom who was like, "Well, Hermione was touching a nerve and he just lashed out the only way he knew how.". Like okay, he lashed out. But he lashed out with a fucking racial slur That is not okay. No matter what someone says to 'hit a nerve' you can't throw a racial slur at someone. And I'm sick of people trying to excuse Draco so that they can justify liking him as a character. Like, I like the character of Draco Malfoy, but he's kinda a douche and calling Hermione a mudblood is really fucking shitty.

Also, Ashlyn brought up the fact that these kids are 12 fucking years old at this point. This kid is throwing sound racial slurs at 12. That's fucking ridiculous! What kind of fucking father is Lucius that Draco had learned these insult's before he's even hit puberty! When reading these books, I tend to forget just how young these characters are at the start of the series, and it makes it kind of worse.

So, that's my Harry Potter commentary for today.