Chapter 3
~Chimera~
a/n: review? Why yes, thank u… *giggles*
As in any society, there had to be a social ladder, that drew the line between types of people, that pointed fingers.
In the magical world, there were five such steps.
The first one was known as the Pureblood society. These were the equivalent of royalty in this world. Examples of such people were of course the Dark Lord, his mistress, Bellatrix Lestrange, who's husband had mysteriously died shortly after the war, the Malfoys, the Dark Lord's first hand, and many others. They were defined by old tradition, wealth and connections.
After that came the halfbloods, magical people born from a muggle and a pureblood. They were believed to be mostly traitors for sullying the blood line, but seeing as the purebloods were, to that day, very little in number, halfbloods were still able to live a somewhat decent life, though without any luxuries. They were merely there to help purebloods in their rise to power.
Going even lower on the social ladder, we would encounter the squibs. Non magical people, that were born from purebloods. Some researchers believed that Muggles were born from squibs, but such ideas were harshly looked down on. The people that fit this criterion were without exception disinherited and forced to leave the magical world. They were not killed only because they were born from pure magic.
Next were the Mudbloods, previously known as Muggleborns, but that was a long time ago. They were magical people born from Muggles. Some of them possessed extraordinary power, but that went either unnoticed, or punished, because they were not deserving of their gift. Most Mudbloods were killed. No Pureblood would be held responsible if he found it necessary to kill one. The very few that remain were looked down on, and mostly held jobs similar to those of elves. They were almost never paid.
The last type, were the Muggles. In the magical world there was no such thing as a Muggle, the term only existed because people needed to define the enemy by it. Slowly, the purebloods were killing all Muggles so as to clean the world of all evil.
One thing that no one knew about, that was not recorded in history, nor remembered by anyone that could speak it, was the fact that the Dark Lord (that drilled those beliefs in every one of his followers and then some more) was in fact a halfblood.