Subservience of Non-Magical Blood in Joanne Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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This research has focused on the racial prejudice faced by the non-magical
race from the magical group. The research examines the racial relation between the
magically powerful wizard Lord Voldemort, Death Eaters, pure-blood wizards and the
non-magical group. The magical race with pure-blood wizards and witches try to wipe
out the non-magical humans only in the pretext of magically powerless race. The
racial war is for the extermination of non-magical blood that is subservient to
magically powerful wizards and witches. Descendents of magical and non-magical
blood are also impure race and subject to extermination, to make the magical race
with only pure-blood wizards and witches. The extermination and domination of them
by Death Eaters and pure-blood wizards under the leadership of Lord Voldemort has
been traced scenario in this research. This research explores how the social definition
set up by wizard-kind effect the non-magical blood and their life. Thus, the research
reveals the racial relation, exclusion of the other and disempowerment of the non-
magical blood in the text.