Snape's Teaching Career - Dumbledore's idea of adult detention?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125374



---  Magda Grantwich  wrote:


> I just had a rather whimsical thought concerning another reason 
Snape
> is at Hogwarts: it's Dumbledore's idea of an adult-appropriate
> detention for Snape's foolishness in believing in pureblood
> superiority when he was younger.  As Catlady points out, it would
> indeed be impossible not to have his perceptions altered by such an
> experience.

a_svirn:

My impression that notion of the pureblood superiority has actually 
nothing to do with mugglebornes' intellectual and magical ability. 
Well, maybe fanatics like the womenfolk of the Black's family would 
insist on that but then, they are not quite sane. As far as I can 
recall most believers in the pureblood superiority feel 
that "Mudbloods" are inferior because they 
are "filthy", "dirty", "riffraff", not a good company to keep,  
and "don't know our ways" etc. They are therefore shouldn't be 
allowed to pursue a magical education and in effect shouldn't be 
allowed to be wizards and witches. In other words they should stay 
Muggles. No one, not even the Malfoys denies the fact that they CAN 
be quite able witches and wizards. The thing is that they are not 
WORTHY to be allowed to do magic, not that their abilities are 
limited.  I'd say it's a social prejudice not a racial one and I 
don't think that years of teaching could possibly eradicate it. 

a_svirn