Snape and purity of blood

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 72360

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> 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.

But doesn't the fact that he apparantly renounced these beliefs 
after a short time in the DEs indicate that he didn't hold them very 
strongly in the first place?  It seems they didn't stand up to 
scrutiny.  I can imagine someone who has sympathy for the DE's cause 
but not their methods, for example, not wanting to be a part of 
them, but Snape is working so hard to undermine their entire cause 
and destroy their organisation.  I can't see someone doing this 
voluntarily if he does still have any sympathies for what they stand 
for.  

Besides, apart from one "mudblood" shouted in rage when he was a 
defensive, embarassed fifteen year old, there's no evidence in the 
books that Snape dislikes the muggle-born any more than he dislikes 
absolutely everybody else.  The only evidence we have about his 
current beliefs is that he works for the Order - and that suggests 
the contrary.  He's an equal opportunities hater!  

^_^ Faith's Girl