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Book 7, Ep. 6 | Eugenics

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The Magic of Voldemort

Voldemort is a product of a wizarding culture that is structurally obsessed with genetics and inheritance at every level. He didn't invent the idea of wizarding eugenics, but he's capitalizing on it by speaking to people who feel that way. And even the people who are not explicitly eugenicists are using language in a way that justifies that practice. So if we think back to what Oliveander says and what comes back in this book, the wand would choose you if you deserved it.

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