Harry Potter and the Battle of Blood

Abstract

This critical essay explores the concept of blood, ethnicity, and race within the Harry Potter series. Through the lens of the Anthropology of Cinema and Ethnic Identity, this piece investigates how the wizarding world deems their people and cultural heritage through wizarding bloodlines. Muggleborn, Pureblood, Half-Blood, Squib… what does it mean to possess wizardly blood, and how does the blood that runs through one’s veins separate those in wizarding society? Which wizarding blood identity reigns superior throughout the Harry Potter series? These open-ended questions are up for much debate and discussed within Harry Potter and the Battle of Blood.