In Defense of Jewish Ravenclaws & "Why Excuse Snape"

[sing2wine]

No: HPFGUIDX 34465

I wrote:
"I think the Jews are in Ravenclaw (if there are any..) - they have a 
separate table." 

SpyGameFan wrote:
"You are treading a VERY fine line in your comments on Ravenclaw Jews 
by the way."

How is this treading any finer a line than your comments about the 
relative intellect of Americans and the political statements about 
Bush? (although I quite agree with you!).

So, as you defended those posts, I will defend mine. This was 
certainly no ethnic slur! I once put out a post about what houses 
people thought they would be sorted into. We know Jenny is a 
Ravenclaw and I surmise I would be one, too. We are both Jewish.
Perhaps if I'd worded my post "What if the Jews are in Ravenclaw" 
instead of "I think the Jews are in Ravenclaw", SpyGameFan would have 
taken it differently....

Marianne writes:
"Maybe Snape does not 
feel worthy to try to interact on a more personal level because he 
carries some sort of guilt for his DE activities, whatever they may 
have been. So, he both punishes and protects himself by sweeping 
through the halls of Hogwarts in a perpetual cloud of sneering 
disdain, keeping everyone at arms' length."

Just as Uncmark asked "Why does everyone hate Hagrid?" (..one of MY 
favorite characters...) I ask "Why is everyone trying to excuse 
Snape?" Why is everyone (even Marianne - who like me, professes to 
dislike Snape!) looking for childhood trauma and unrequited love to 
excuse Snape for ever having become a DE and for the inexcusable way 
in which he treats Harry and Neville and Hermione - and that whole 
class of Gryffindors? If, as was mentioned in several earlier posts, 
he hates Harry because among other things, he seems to be able to get 
away with breaking rules and that's not fair - what is fair about 
Snape favoring his own students? Draco is Snape's favorite student 
and Draco has certainly not shown many positive character traits yet.
(I was going to say Draco has not yet shown he has a decent bone  
in his wretched little body but then someone will surely point out  
his tentative warning to Hermione at the Quidditch World Cup and the 
fact that his evil DE father seems to bully him. In pre-defense, 
I will remind them of another earlier post about Harry's wretched 
treatment by the Dursleys and how he still manages to be be very 
altruistic....) 

Bonnie / sing2wine