[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and purity of blood

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 72265


  --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
  wrote:
  > The FBI doen't generally recruit school children to infiltrate 
  adult organizations.  We have evidence that Snape was a bigot 
  when he was 15 or so. 
  >
  
  bibphile:
  > Do we really?  I've been called a racists slur by a person who I 
  don't believe for a moment was racist.  I think we need more than 
  one comment to base his beliefs on.

  I don't beleive Snape really believed muggle-borns were inferior.  I 
  also don't think he thought they were equal, either.  I don't think 
  he thought much about it until some one expected him to kill over 
  it.  Then he made his decision.  He turned spy.

  I do believe Snape joined Voldemort because he wanted power.  Mostly 
  because we saw how much he hated being powerless. <<<

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  I agree, and I would like to point out that there are a lot of things we passionately 'believe' in during our adolescent years that we come to realise are wrong or unimportant as we get a little more maturity and fewer hormones.  And you only have to stand outside a school to hear the most foul mouthed language, most of which the kids don't even know or care about the meaning of, only that they are using 'shocking' words.

  Dawn