Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

[vmonte]

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Carol wrote::
I agree with Betsy that prejudice against werewolves (who are
genuinely dangerous) is not racism. The entire WW classifies
werewolves as beasts, not people. (Check "Fantastic Beasts.") 
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It is not, IMO, irrational to fear and mistrust such people, 
especially when the whole WW shares your view.

vmonte responds:
And we all know that there is no racism in the WW, right? 

From:
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2003/0626-alberthall-fry.htm

SF: It is one of the most horrible and brilliant inventions in the 
books is this snobbery this idea of pureblood and mudblood and mixed 
breeding which is a reflection of some of the things like racism and 
intolerance that we have in our world is that deliberate? I mean did 
it come to you in a flash again or was it something.

JKR: It is deliberate that was always there from the beginning really 
as you saw in Draco because the first time Harry meets him he says 
something very rude about muggles. I was also playing with that when 
I created Professor Lupin who has a condition that is contagious of 
course and so people are very frightened of him and I really like 
Professor Lupin, the character, because he's somebody who also has 
his failing he's such a great man and he's a wonderful teacher in 
fact I would say that Lupin is the one time I've written a teacher I 
loved really liked to have had because Professor McGonnagol is a very 
good teacher but she can be quite scary at times, very strict. So 
Lupin's a wonderful teacher and a very nice man but he has a failing 
and his failing is that he does like to be liked and that's where he
slips up because he has been disliked so often that he's always so 
pleased to have friends so he cuts them and awful lot of slack.


Carol, who's getting a bit tired of all the emotionalism and wishes
that people would not get upset when other posters express opinions
that they don't share.

vmonte responds:
What? 

Vivian