Hermione's rude comment

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>   It was suggested that Snape was a racist because of one word used 
when he was being taunted as a teenager (seen in the pensieve), so 
perhaps JKR might of been dropping a hint that not everything said by 
a teenage student to another is to be taken as a sign that they are 
deeply tainted with racist beliefs?
> 
>   Dawn


I'm sorry but no matter what you actually believe the hurling of 
racist comments only promotes racism and the idea that being 
publically racist is ok.  If you can't make racist people tolerant, 
you can do your best to make them ashamed.

Whether Hermione's comment is a signal of deep seaded racism or just 
a shallow (if tasteless) oneliner, it is still a racist joke.  Thus 
unacceptable in my opinion.  

I notice Hermione is very hard in this book.  She's not all together 
nice (except to Harry) but I honestly don't think this comment is a 
signal of some deeper meaning. I think it is meant to be funny.

We get no indication that Hermione is wrong for this comment.  She 
doesn't learn from it and all we get is the shocked reaction from 
Lavendar or Parvati (do they even have separate personalities 
anymore?) But really for their to be a moral point ot this comment 
Rowling needs to take it and bring it back to us with some sort of 
reaction that affects the reader or Hermione to show it is wrong.  
She really never does this.  There is no action/reaction in the text 
to suggest a moral point to this line.  Or at least I don't think 
there is.

Golly.