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

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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.") 
snip. It is not, IMO, irrational to fear and mistrust such people, 
especially when the whole WW shares your view.


Alla:

I fail to see how the fact that whole WW shares your POV, makes it 
not racism. 

Does the fact that jews in Soviet Union were despised more or less by 
all "good folks" ( and it was more or less officially approved by the 
government) make such ideology less antisemitic?

If whole WW shares fear and mistrust of people, who suffer from 
lycanthropy, well than yes, whole WW has racist point of view in this 
matter, IMO.



Valky:
Ahhhh lets get all warm and fuzzy shall we, instead.  
Prejudice against werewolves and prejudice against the otherwise 
kind good people who suffer the affliction are different things. One 
is fairly rational behaviour, the other is... well something 
different.
It is understandably difficult for Sevvie to differentiate the two, 
given his experiences, but it is not impossible. 
The sad thing about the scene where Snape throws to what is IMHO a 
deliberate confusion between Lupin and his unfortunate affliction, 
is the irony. An opportunity for Snape went begging.


Alla:

Word of agreement, Valky. I do see how Snape will be afraid of 
werewolf. It is understandable. What I DON'T see as rational is Snape 
DEFINING Remus as werewolf.

About the irony, did you mean that comparison can be drawn between 
the fact that Dumbledore chose NOT to define Snape as "former 
deatheater" only and Snape is uncapable of doing the same thing for 
Remus? Could you clarify please if you meant something different?


Just my opinion,

Alla