[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's rude comment (slang and stuff)(longish again)

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 74737

From: severusbook4 
  <<snip>>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.>>>>>
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  I think I was refering to the taunting Tom heard from his father.  Far from curing him of any wish to taunt others, he was determined to them wipe out.  (I can't quote, I don't have the book to hand.  Have I remembered this right?)
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   <<<<< 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.  
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  I can see now that that was not your intention, it was just that you posted "This whole thing of Hermione being racist or rather a speciesist is unfounded" , and I'm afraid I rose to the bait.  As you say now, it is possible to read this as a slur, and I thought it might be worth further discussion.  Please see my other posts on this subject for my prefered interpretation!

  Dawn




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