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Petunia was jealous, and felt inferior.
Yes. Precisely. And not just Petunia, but humans in general, tend to exhibit a host of emotions when we are jealous. Jealously is more often than not the sole emotion–it can lead to resentment (check for Petunia), anger (check for Petunia), cruelty to those who do not deserve it (check for Petunia) and, perhaps most telling, a heightened sense of superiority in order to compensate for feelings of inadequacies (major check)
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"A and E must be writing 506 if the new girl is doing 505. Makes sense 506 is the middle of the road and they typically take the middle episode, along with first and last.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The term “Muggle” is presented as a neutral noun. It had no negative connotations, unlike “Mudblood” which is always presenting as a foul, insulting label.
Excellent point. Muggle seems to be a general catchall for non-magical folk but without rendering them as less than or inferior than the magical born.
I do continue to wonder, however, if there is a sense of superiority over the Muggles. This doesn’t need to mean that the magical born feel like they should dominate the Muggles, but that there is a sense of just general “betterness” because they have magic (which can solve many problems) while the Muggles do not.
For example (eh, not really a spoiler but a line from an upcoming book so I’ll tag it)
at one point Arthur Weasley says to Harry about Muggles, “Bless them. They’ll go to any lengths to ignore magic. Even if it’s right in front of their face.” I’m not calling Arthur a racist or wizardist but rather that when he looks at the Muggle world, however much he may love it–and we know Arthur does–there is a sense that the Muggles are like the children in the world. They can’t see what is right in front of them and when confronted with the unknown, they rationalize it to make sense in a language (terms) they can understand. We’ve seen this quite a bit back in chapter one with Vernon’s desire to cast all the magical goings on in mundane terms.
So while I agree that the term “Muggle” is just an ordinary neutral term, I do continue to ponder that heightened sense of superiority that all Magic born have over the non-magic born.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Yup that pretty much confirms that 504 is a big Camelot episode. I said “Broken Kingdom” would likely refer to Guinevere and Lancelot since their love is what tore Camelot apart.
(Geez Liam looks like Colin)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Okay, overall that’s a much better DVD than S3.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Hopefully someone records it like they did with the Neverland clip (and the entire Wonderland presentation) a few years back.
Someone will. And if not, then we’ll get a detailed report.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I very much doubt that when A and E wrote the rotten apple segment it was with the intention of foreshadowing a poster 4 years down the road, or even foreshadowing Dark Swan four years down the road. The rotten apple in S1 is working on a whole different level from the one in S5 poster. In S1 it is a rotten and it’s representative of Regina and her waning power as Mayor as the time of the Savior approaches. In S5 it’s not rotten, it’s just dark and has nothing to do with waning power but of a new power.
BUT with that said, Emma’s journey really doesn’t need to be foreshadowed or carefully planned since S1 for A and E to have had Dark Swan on their radar for some point in time. Heroes Journey…yadda yadda yadda…monomyth road…yadda yadda yadda. Y’all have heard me talk about this countless times now.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
