The good Slytherin - Shades of Grey

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No: HPFGUIDX 131404

Magda:

> I think we have to take the middle ground - the grey area, if you
> will - and realize that you can be a total snob about your wizard
> heritage and yet not be a wanna-be mass-murderer or muggle-hunter. 
> Sirius - who has no reason to put his parents' beliefs in a good
> light - says that his parents were all in favour of Voldemort until
> they realized what he was really after.  
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> 
> Harry and company hasn't confronted this grey area yet and in 
Harry's
> case he probably doesn't know it even exists.  He's still in good
> guy/bad guy mode.  (This is another reason, IMO, why Sirius was 
not a
> good mentor for Harry; Sirius had way too much emotional baggage
> concerning his family to give Harry clear and objective guidance
> about seeing the big picture of wizard society.)


Alla:

Unsurprisingly, I disagree. I don't think that the ideology area  is 
meand to be even a little bit grey, but pretty much black and white.

First question - where exactly do you drew that line where "grey" 
stops being "grey" and becomes "black"?

Say person is being proud of his /her "pureblood" heritage. So far 
so good, but if such person at the same time  thinks 
that "muggleborns" are not as good as this person is, I doubt that 
JKT supports this , even if this person does not want to go on a 
muggleborn killing expedition.

Moreover, I think that it is very telling that on her website JKR 
compares calling people "half-bloods" etc with what natzi did to 
jews.

I may be very wrong, but to me it is quite  clear where she stands 
on "purebloodism', even if it did not grow in certain families  to 
the level of being Voldemort's supporters.

I don't think that JKR treats Black family even remotely 
sympathetically, even though they did not think that Voldemort was 
right.

And I think the fact that Sirius  left his family, makes him in fact 
a very good mentor for Harry, since it would show him where "blood 
pride" can lead you, if you don't leave it behind.


Just my opinion,

Alla.