Snape and purity of blood

bibphile bibphile at yahoo.com
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.)

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