[HPforGrownups] Re: The good Slytherin - Shades of Grey

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 131408

> 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"?

Alla disagrees; stop the presses.

The line is drawn where thought becomes action.  Hate is not illegal
(although I would argue that we have no proof that Slyths in general
hate halfbloods and muggles, you're just assuming they do).

 
> 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.

Being a jerk is not a crime.  Again, we have no proof that Slyths in
general think this way, although we can probably assume a House-pride
and a my-family-goes-back-to-the-Saxon-invasion-of-Britain
consciousness.  

 
> 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 don't think that's the exact quote.  

 
> 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.

Snobbery is never a virtue, although it's by no means the worst of
vices and it's not a crime.  

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

And who said she did?  She treats them as foolish people who were
trapped in their own fantasy and allowed it to destroy their family.
 
> 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.


You think he left it behind?  Not at all; Sirius rejected their
beliefs but he had a great deal of Black I-can-do-what-I-want
attitude which led to his most egregious mistakes.

Magda 

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