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593: Nepo Baby Draco (Chamber of Secrets, Chapters 7 and 8)

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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Draco's Mudblood

Mudblood is the primary racial slur of the Wizarding world as far as we know. We know we're others, but this is the one that we get. So I was wondering, shouldn't there be greater punishment for Draco using the word? Because he uses it in front of both Quidditch teams and then gets Ron belching slugs. And then at the end of the next chapter, he uses it presumably in front of hundreds of students who are crowding into this corridor to see Mrs. Norris,. Is there no consequence for saying this? Yeah, it's a great question. It's easy maybe to assume that in these moments Draco is going to be overheard by an

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