[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and purity of blood

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 76369

marika_thestral wrote:
> I totally agree with you Wendy. We don't know if Snape really meant 
> what he said or not. Like so many on this list have said before, the 
> guy was humiliated, and then it's easy to say things you normally 
> wouldn't say. It's equally likely he meant it at the time, but not 
> anymore. I can also see that he just grabbed the first insult he 
> could think of without even thinking about what it really meant or 
> weather he agreed to the meaning of it or not. When I was about eight 
> years old, it was very common that the boys in my class used the 
> word "gay" to insult somebody. I bet half of them didn't know what it 
> meant, and that the other half really didn't dislike homosexuals - at 
> least not at the time. Some of them probably grew up being homofobic 
> while others grew up being homosexual themselves.

And if one of those people had joined an organization the policy 
of which was to beat up homosexuals, would you still say that he 
never meant any of it?