Blood Purity

An ideology held by many Witches and Wizards, especially the pure blooded, in which people with 'purer' blood are seen as better and more human than people without pure blood. The further back your family line has only wizard ancestry, the better, in the eyes of those who believe in this. Such a belief leads to hate, discrimination, and segregation. Many wars have been started over this, with millions of people hurt.

There is a purity heirachy, with muggles being at the bottom, muggleborns at a similar level, halfbloods on the middle, and purebloods on top. Even here, there are subtopics and a differing of opinions. Some see muggleborns as worse than muggles due to the belief of 'stealing magic', some see them as better as 'at least they have magic'. Halfbloods are often given the chance to 'redeem themselves' by purebloods, yet are still discriminated against. Even among purebloods there are scuffles among them about who has the purest blood, with accusations of affairs and such within.

Blood purity has been an issue since the Middle Ages, in magical Britain’s case. The old families have allied with all sorts of people in their attempt to control the country, to remain to top 1 percent. Voldemort is one of the latest, but the most dangerous and prominent figure leading such an ideology. He won many of them over, such as Yaxley or the loyalists, but some purebloods still see Voldemort as their permanent ticket to the top of the food chain.

Grindelwald’s war was against the muggles because he saw them as his inferior. He hated them, and as such, that got him some support from the purebloods, like the Rosier family. The purebloods are always looking for ways to take over.

Purebloods like the Weasleys and the Longbottom, the light especially, do not beleive in these views.

This all plays into Emilia’s views on greed, and the impact said views have had on Ron as a person. He learns little lessons along the way, which keeps his views and behaviour ever changing.