What is poetic justice? WAS: Re: Snape-the Hero -- Snape-the Abuser

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 143575

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "whizbang" <whizbang121 at y...> 
wrote:

> Whiz:  
> Nowhere does it say that Purebloods think half bloods shouldn't be
> taught wizard ways.  Half bloods are tolerated.  It's only 
> muggleborns and halfbreeds that Purebloods have issues with.  For 
> all the reasons that Draco torments Harry, it's never about his 
> mixed blood, but he loves to remind everyone that Hermione is 
> muggleborn.

>From JKR's website:

-Why are some people in the wizarding world (e.g., Harry) 
called 'half-blood' even though both their parents were magical?-

The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have 
been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express 
their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy 
is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. 
Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of 
his mother's grandparents.
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Ergo, for at least some out there, Harry too is an inadequate 
exemplar of a wizard.  There are just even more obvious targets as 
well.

-Nora yawns and takes a break from other writing