Importance of Audience (was Re: Dumbledore or Snape)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141467

 
> Pippin:
<snip> 

> There used to be a concern, though I haven't heard much about it 
lately,
> about whether Snape, with his hooked nose, his insistence on the 
letter
> of the law, and his stiff-necked attitude wasn't some kind of 
Jewish
> allegorical reference. If so, that he should be *falsely* supposed 
to have 
> killed Dumbledore has more resonance for me, as a Jew, than if it 
turns 
> out that he did kill him but might be forgiven. But that's just me.
> 

Well, I can see how a hooked nose and the insistence on the letter 
of the law may be associated with jewishness. (Not but this would 
mean that Rowling exploits anti-Semitic stereotypes, surely a wicked 
thing to do). But how does it follow that Snape is "falsely" 
supposed to be a murderer? 

a_svirn