Gingers are traditionally bullied ruthlessly in UK schools. They have been for more than a hundred years.
Being a ginger is a very visible sign of having Irish ancestry. There are a bunch of cultural reasons that the Irish were loud, stupid, prideful, drunks. They were always poor, always Catholic (strongly Papist) in a country where Papist plots had tried to assassinate fucking everyone important, thousands of times.
The Irish Papists were trying to blow up the common people of London in the Troubles, which didn't really end until after the World Trade Center and the New York "Irish" stopped funding their terrorist bullshit.
Private School Houses are a thing. "Old School" ties and loyalty to the fellow alumni of the "Old School" is a class marker of the upper class. Something like more than half of UK Prime Ministers were graduates from Eaton boys school.
The Weasleys are stand ins for poor Irish Catholics, and they are poor because the dad works and the mother stays home and looks after their huge family.
More traditionally, Irish drink and gamble and beat their wives, then go to Church on Sunday to worship the Pope and be sorry for what they have done.
Gingers are traditionally bullied ruthlessly in UK schools. They have been for more than a hundred years.
Being a ginger is a very visible sign of having Irish ancestry. There are a bunch of cultural reasons that the Irish were loud, stupid, prideful, drunks. They were always poor, always Catholic (strongly Papist) in a country where Papist plots had tried to assassinate fucking everyone important, thousands of times.
The Irish Papists were trying to blow up the common people of London in the Troubles, which didn't really end until after the World Trade Center and the New York "Irish" stopped funding their terrorist bullshit.
Private School Houses are a thing. "Old School" ties and loyalty to the fellow alumni of the "Old School" is a class marker of the upper class. Something like more than half of UK Prime Ministers were graduates from Eaton boys school.
The Weasleys are stand ins for poor Irish Catholics, and they are poor because the dad works and the mother stays home and looks after their huge family.
More traditionally, Irish drink and gamble and beat their wives, then go to Church on Sunday to worship the Pope and be sorry for what they have done.