Harry Potter: Secrets and Trials

Opposing Force

In the United Kingdom Yuzu and Pele were on patrol with Arthur Weasley and the Magical Law Enforcement Squad as they were prepared to raid the home of another pureblood supremacist. Due to the records given to them by Duncan Rosenblatt after he and Electra captured Borgin and Burke they were making some progress but they had a long way to go.

Yuzu and Pele were flying to the target of a muggle bating incident and as they did the two decided to chat about what was going on.

"So, Arthur Weasley was it?" Pele asked, "How does it feel to know that you've finally moved up in the ministry with an increased salary after all these raids so far?"

"Well to be honest I'm quite happy that I've been promoted and surprised but overall, a bit worried about my old position as head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts," Arthur said, "On the one hand my family's fortunes have been restored with interest so my wife and I can finally get our kids proper supplies, and we finally got a new post owl. Maggie said that Errol is hoping for retirement at his age but he'd keep working for us until we got a new owl and now that we have one Errol can finally rest. About time that we got some justice against the Crabbe, Goyle, Carrow, and Umbridge Families for the scams they pulled on my father."

"Duncan told me all about that as of late," Yuzu said, "He's also been telling me about this Non-Magical Folk Protection Act that his mother and her sisters here in the United Kingdom drafted and passed with some input from you of course."

"It is true and we got the definitions of Muggle-bating to be much more lenient," the Head of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol said, "And frankly it's about time too Muggle-baiting has become a big problem as of late and it's actually part of much more serious anti-Muggle sentiments."

"Like this Pure Blood Supremacy Yuzu and I have been hearing about," said Pele.

"Exactly right," said Arthur Weasley, "Fortunately the Chief of Staff Alaric Bones has been following Charity Burbage's advice about merit-based promotions and that in turn is solving plenty of problems."

"True but what is this Pure Blood Supremacy and how bad is it?" asked Yuzu.

"It's a long story," said Arthur as he told Yuzu and Pele all he knew of the subject.

At Potter Manor Harry, Daisy, and Abigail were getting a crash course on the subject of Pureblood Supremacy from their cousins as the rest of the Dragon Racing and Quidditch Teams returned home for the summer to rest up in preparation for a big event on July 31st. Hermione and Ron were present as well since the subject of Pureblood Supremacy concerned them as well as were Carol and Payson's friends.

"Time for a quick lesson you lot. Pureblood Supremacy is the belief that wizards and witches whose family had not married any muggles or muggleborns are biologically superior to wizards and witches who had done so," said Carol, "They also believe that Muggleborn wizards and witches are impure and unworthy of possessing magical abilities and despise them."

"Seriously they actually do that?" Hermione asked.

"Yep I'm afraid so. Take the Malfoy, Black and Lestrange Families for example," said Russell, "Blood Purists like them despise Muggleborns and those who accept them because they're afraid that by promoting and accepting the mixture of magical and non-magical blood would dilute or even negate the wizard identity."

"And it gets worse pure-blood supremacists even view Muggles, Muggleborns, half-bloods like most of us here, with contempt," Payson spat with fury. "The truth is most wizards or witches today are half-bloods. If we didn't marry muggles we'd die out."

"They also view any non-humans or those who have non-human blood like myself as inferior and tried to control or dictate their lives." Verity added, "Fortunately the Global Federation of Magical Creatures with the help of the Kaiju Kingdom managed to put a stop to that. Unfortunately, pureblood supremacists like Delores Umbridge refuse to accept it and refer to people like Hermione as Mudbloods or people like myself as Half-breeds. Fortunately, the chief of staff Alaric Bones managed to put a stop to that in the ministry and hire people based upon their merits not blood status and Yzma's been cracking down hard on such language."