HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE: BY JK ROWLING

    One thing that our teachers always ask us to do when we are re-reading our books, is to try and find something that is interesting, new, or something that we didn't realize. That's exactly what I did with one of my favorite book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. There tend to be times where one of the meaner character, like Draco Malfoy, would make a crude comment about Muggle born people. At first I thought Rowling just put it there to make us dislike Malfoy even more, but as I thought more about it, I came to realize that she was using her book as a reference that happens a lot in the real world.  
   People in the real world tend to be prejudice toward a group of people. Here in America the "dominate group" (white) look down upon the minor group "blacks." America's history has more than a few time periods where the conflict between these two races has risen and become violent. The Civil Rights era was a time period where blacks began to stick up for their rights, while the whites tried to hold them down. Before that, in the Civil War, Lincoln decided that the north was not only fighting to keep the country together, but to support the African Americans, too.        But instead of blacks against whites, its "pure bloods" against "muggle-born." There are some wizard to pride themselves on not having any muggle blood in them. And those who do, the pure bloods think that they are below them. They discriminate those wizards who come from muggle descent but have turned out to be wizards or witches. They even have a nasty word for them "mudbloods." 

       I believe that the reason J.K Rowling but this similar social issue in her book is to secretly tell her readers her opinion on this type of issue. I think she thinks it isn't fair and that you shouldn't treat a book by its cover, especially if the book is smarter than you are (like Hermione Granger.) I completely agree with J.K Rowling and think that it was "bloody brilliant" how she made that connection to the real world.