Passwords + Snape a Pure-bloodist

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kelly Hurt <klhurt at y...> wrote:

> I stand firm:  the Slytherin password proves (to me, at least) that
> Snape is a pure-bloodist at heart.>

Hmmm - I see Snape more as carefully keeping up appearances.  Other 
than the fact that we know he *used* to be a DE, there is no evidence 
that he still harbors the same feelings as other DEs (like Lucius 
Malfoy) on the pure-blood issue.  I think he needs for the Slytherins 
to *think* he feels the same way as they do; even if he does not.  
There is also no evidence that Snape even made up that password 
(someone else mentioned that the paintings did it themselves.  We 
don't even know if he ever even visits the Slytherin common room; he 
may not even know the password at all.

I would call Snape an equal opportunity bigot - he seems to hate just 
about everyone equally, whether pure-blooded or not. Sometimes I even 
wonder if he really dislikes Draco too, and his favortism of Draco is 
also just as act.  Snape just mystifies me, but I definitely cannot 
say that he is a "pure-bloodist at heart"; we just don't have enough 
to go on to come to that conclusion.

--jenny from ravenclaw ********************************************