Snape and purity of blood
bibphile
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Sat Jul 19 12:37:51 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 71596
> Apart from the *perhaps* 'fleeting' indiscretion against Lily in
the
> pensieve when Snape was a young man, there has been no direct
> implication of prejudice against blood by Snape in the books, as I
> recall it.
> I read into it that he must maintain a professionalism a a
teacher,
> as well. So I can not say for sure that he has no prejudice
existing
> in him as an adult.
>
> Valky
I disagree. I don't think he's prejudice. As an adult, he often
horribly unproffessional. Still, he never shows signs of prejudice
based on bloodlines.
People occassionally throw around insults that they don't mean. I
think he insult Lily because of injured pride and not because of
prejudice. I doubt he ever called Lily anything like that before
because she seemed shocked.
Once I got called four-eyes by another kid. I didn't assume he
actually had anything against people with glasses. I assumed he
couldn't think of a good insult. A few years later, when I got
called a racial slur by someone who had never -- in my presence --
shown any sugns of racism, I assumed the same thing. If fact, my
intitial thought was almost exactly the same in both cases: "Can't
you come up with anything better than that?"
I believe he joined Voldemort for power, not ideology.
That said, I don't think he really believed in the equality of
muggle-borns and half-bloods, just that he didn't particularly
belive in their inferiority either. He probably wouldn't have
joined Voldemort if he did. I figure he'd really never thought
about it so he just went along with his friends. (Until they asked
him to start killing these people for no reason at all.)
bibphile
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