Theory on Snape - MASSIVE

[zendemort]

No: HPFGUIDX 109280

> vmonte responds:
> 
> I'm going to admit up front that I'm prejudiced against Snape because 
> I personally see that being part of Voldemort's minions is as bad as 
> believing in ethnic cleansing, being a part of the KKK, a Nazi, etc. 
> It's hard to believe that DD would ask Snape to join an evil cult 
> knowing full well what he would probably be doing there. Do you think 
> that Snape stayed home making potions while Voldemort and gang 
> murdered and tortured people? 



I would compare the Death Eater to Nazis, because of the situation 
in which the hatred for muggleborns arose. Slytherin believed 
muggles and muggleborns to be "untrustworthy." This idea of 
untrustworthy was applied to the Jewish people for many generations, 
and became the reason for ethnic cleansing in Germany. (We must also 
remember that Wizards were persecuted by Muggles in the past. It is 
partly for this reason that they created a separate world, and in 
creating this world, there was a deep hatred for Muggles. ) Much 
like Nazi Germany, many people were raised to view the Jewish 
as "christ-killers" and "untrustworthy," but many did not wish to 
see them eradicated, and some, after realizing the effects of 
Hilter, switched sides and became spies. Others who were in the Nazi 
party just followed orders. They didn't think twice about what they 
were doing. There was a study done on university students, I believe 
at Stanford, that showed most of these students WERE willing to 
torture others when instructed to, just to receive high marks.  

"zendemort"