Pureblood Supremacist Agenda (was: DD, LV, Chess and War)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124381


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bleckybecs" <bleckybecs at y...>
wrote:
> Becky:
> 
> Just to add my few thoughts to this. My chess playing experience is 
> fairly limited due to the fact that my brother well and truly beats 
> me every time we play (just to point out for my own reputation, my 
> playing isn't all that bad, but his *is* all that good. He has an 
> impressive record for 19 yrs old - Primary school champion 3 times, 
> Island Junior Champion twice, high school champion more times than
> I care to count and he has beaten the Island Adult champion before 
> he became too ill to play regularly. Highly depressing for me 
> then
) 
> however, I will try to say something helpful. 


I'm sorry to hear about your brother, and I honestly know nearly
nothing about chess.  

But your observations about how he uses diversionary tactics to draw
your attention away from the real action is very much how I see Snape
in HP.  

It seems to me that there are three agendas at work in the series, but
our attention is constantly absorbed in two of them, Dumbledore and Co
vs Voldemort and the DEs, so that we don't see the third agenda in the
background.  

The purebloods, who believe that they should be in charge and
muggleborns should not be educated in magic, have motives of the own.
  
This is from OotP, ch 6:

 . "Come on, Harry, haven't you seen enough of this house to tell
 .  what kind of wizards my family were?" said Sirius testily.

 . "Were - were your parents Death Eaters as well?"

 . "No, no, but believe me, they thought Voldemort had the right
 . idea, they were all for the purification of the wizarding race, 
 . getting rid of Muggle-borns and having pure-bloods in charge. They 
 . weren't alone, either, there were quite a few people, before 
 . Voldemort showed his true colours, who thought he had the right 
 . idea about things... they got cold feet when they saw what he was 
 . prepared to do to get power, though. 

I call them Pureblood Supremacists.  When Voldemort showed up spouting
Salazar Slytherin's party line, many of the supremacists joined him,
believing that he would promote their cause.  But he doublecrossed
them.  By the time they realized that Voldemort had enslaved them to
his own purposes, his own takeover of the magical world, it was too
late. Regulus was killed and Snape had to play double agent to survive.

And what of the Pureblood Supremacist Agenda?

Snape is burning the candle at both ends. Voldemort thinks he's spying
on Dumbledore for him.  Dumbledore believes the opposite is true.  But
who exactly is Snape working for?

I propose that Snape is masterminding a pureblood takeover of the
magical world.  To do this, the first thing he has to do it get rid of
Voldemort.  

Snape knows that his only hope of freedom from his enslavement to the
Dark Lord is the son of his archenemy, Harry Potter.  He hates Harry,
if possible, more than he ever hated James.  But Harry is Snape's only
hope of release.  I believe that this is why Dumbledore trusts Snape.

Pureblood Supremacists have come down on both sides of the fence. 
Fudge, for example was apparently never a DE, but he is a supremacist.

This is from GoF, pg 708:

 . "You place too much importance, and you always have done, on
 . the so-called purity of blood!  You fail to recognize that it 
 . matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"

On the Good Guys vs Megalomaniac front, Fudge comes down on the side
that works against Voldemort, but he is a supremacist nevertheless.

For what it's worth, I suspect Filch as well.  These are two
characters that are easy to overlook in the grand scheme of things.  

As for Snape, I think he's playing both sides against the middle and
forwarding his own agenda.  Why didn't he report Quirrell to
Dumbledore?  

Why did Snape threaten Harry with Veritaserum if he's a legimens. 
Didn't he know that Harry wasn't lying?

And, my favorite question, why did Molly Weasley harbor a common
garden rat for 12 years?