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

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 74732

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> From: severusbook4 
>   <<<snip>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. <snip>>>

Dawn:
>>   The point of discussing this was, IMO, because Hermione *did* 
make comments that could be read as predudiced, so there is a 
foundation for the thread.  Exploring whether she actually meant 
anything by them, or whether JKR was trying to say something about 
HG, the plot to come, or something already published is one of the 
reasons this list was set up.

As to a person who is subjected to racial slurs not being 
capable of a similar offence, human history is sadly full of 
examples of the fallacy of that arguement.  For a WW example, try 
Tom Riddle.<<



But Dawn, Tom hid his mudblood past and there is no mention of him 
ever being called a mudblood, he was ashamed of it and killed his 
father because of it, if anyone is a racist it would be Tom Riddle. 
IMOO I think Tom became evil early on because he hated even himself 
for being a mudblood.
  All I was saying is that Hermione is portrayed as a person who 
will take up for the little people, or anything that she sees being 
mistreated, ie. the house elves, and the hippogriff, Bucky.  I am 
not saying that her comment could not be construed as racist, 
because it could be, I am saying in the conversation she was having 
with the girls her comment did pertain to their attraction to the 
new divination proffessor.