[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and purity of blood

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 72306

bibphile wrote:
> --- 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.
> 
> 
> 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 didn't say it was proof, I said it was evidence, and it is.

> I don't beleive Snape really believed muggle-borns were inferior.  I 
> also don't think he thought they were equal, either.  

Do you have evidence for this?

> 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.

Again, do you have evidence?  The evidence of the slur aimed at
Lily suggests that he did think of it.

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

Yet again, where is the evidence?

We don't have much evidence about Snape's beliefs, but what we do 
have is entirely consistent with him holding the typical 
Slytherinish anti-Muggle beliefs, at least when he joined the 
Death Eaters.