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How did the wizarding society look at incest?

In the books there are clear indication to inbreeding between the pure-blood families. But technically they were "forced" to inbreed as they wanted to keep the blood "pure". So them inbreeding doesn't yet say much about how did the wizarding society generelly think of the matter. Especially as most of it wasn't obsessed with blood-purity.

Also, inbreeding with one's own cousins or second-cousins is significantly different from doing so with one's own parent or a sibling, which cases were never on any level in the books.

It's been a while since I read the books, so does anyone know if they (or Rowling outside the books) has ever addressed this matter about the wizarding society?

As in, how would've most of the wizarding society think of cases of inbreeding, especially those closer than just coisins?

It's hard to guess because the wizarding society was so black-and-white and prejudiced on many things until Voldemort's final fall. Yet on the other hand that society was quite messed up...So I think it's 50/50 chance between approval and disapproval of incestuous matters. And I'm looking for anything official on it.
 bendaimmortal posted over a year ago
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dragonsmemory said:
Most of the "incest" was kept in the old pureblood families such as the Blacks and Malfoys. In fact, "incest" was used two ways. The first was to keep the bloodline pure and unsullied por Muggles. The segundo was to keep the wealth and power in the family. This segundo reason has justification in the royal families of Muggle Europe.
As Sirius pointed out in OOTP, all purebloods are related to each other. Thus, if a witch or wizard wants to marry a pureblood, they have very limited choice, and must marry a relative.
Muggle-borns and half-bloods find such families disgusting and backwards, but for the purebloods, it is a fact of life. Such incest has been going on for so long in these families that they don't know or want to live any other way.
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"Muggle-borns and half-bloods find such families disgusting and backwards," - Where is this information from? I'm creating an OC character and I'd like to be as canon/author's intent-based as possible.
bendaimmortal posted over a year ago
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Just about all of this, except what has been directly sourced, has been pireced together from years of extensive research. Those raisedd in the Muggle world (with some understanding of genetics) would obviously find it disgustingg and backwards.
dragonsmemory posted over a year ago
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Well, yeah. Good point. Thanks! :)
bendaimmortal posted over a year ago
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Happy to help. I've spent years researching this stuff
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Alchemistlover said:
I think that Purebloods looked highly on it. Most likely not brother/sister marriages but probably with cousins or segundo cousins
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Yeah, probably. Except perhaps Weasleys and Crouches who didn't seem to be all that hyped about blood-purity.
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Flickerflame said:
I think the purebloods who cared about blood purity and who hated Muggles would have remained unaware of the genetic reasons behind incest being taboo. They wouldn't realise the harm it did. They might even see inbreeding as a thing to be proud of, something else which made them different from Muggles.

Those raised por Muggles would obviously know of the dangers and the taboo, and would regard it as we would.

I think possibly "blood traitor" families would see it the same way as Muggleborns. Or some would, anyway. My reason for this is that when Harry wrongly guesses that tonks might have fallen in amor with Sirius, it's Ron who points out they'd been cousins.
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