Hermione's rude comment (slang and stuff)(longish again)

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 74704

Lady Macbeth:
> > I think this is VERY likely the large amount of it.  Children 
(and teens) use words EVERY DAY that they don't truly grasp the 
meaning of, yet are potentially derogatory.

feetmadeofclay:
> It is not "potentially derogatory" it is derogatory.  Plain and 
> simple.  <snip> Hermione's a smart girl. Far smarter and more 
proactive than I was.  She knows better.  She can do better.  I 
can't excuse any such language except on the basis of ignorance 
because she isn't ignorant.  Perhaps if it was sweetfaced Neville?   
 
Lady Macbeth:
> > <snip> racism is a learned behavior, not an instinctual one.


IMOO I think that this is just a remark, not racist in the least.  
She just doen't like horses.  I don't own a dog, but I own a cat, 
does this make me racist? No, I just like cats more than dogs.  The 
context that she used is that she didn't find Firenze to be dreamy 
in a romantic way as she found her last DADA teacher (I forgot his 
name), the fact the other girls find this centaur dreamy is kind of 
disturbing.  

Also when she refers to Lupin as a werewolf, and uses it 
derogatorily, does have its justifications, werewolves are to be 
feared and when she finds it out, she also finds out Lupin is in 
league with a known mass killer, the person to be believed is after 
Harry.  She uses the term werewolf to warn Harry not to let his 
guard down, "Lupin is a werewolf, keep your defences up, if he 
changes he will eat you" kind of thing.  It would worry me if I just 
found out a teacher I liked was a werewolf and was on the side of a 
person that wanted to kill me. 

This whole thing of Hermione being racist or rather a speciesist 
is unfounded, she is the first to be singled out as a mudblood and 
she is rather hurt by it, this would make her the last to use 
someone's race or species as an insult against them. Harry is a half 
blood which I don't understand since both of his parents are magical.  
Yes his mother is a half muggle(or is she like Hermione{another reason 
the two will get together}) but she still was born magical.  And no 
one singles him out as a mudblood, do they?

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