Importance of Audience (was Re: Dumbledore or Snape)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141468

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

Jews have been falsely accused with the killing of Jesus Christ, when 
in fact, it was Pilate.  That could be what Pippen is referring to.  

colebiancardi
(who actually thinks Snape might be Italian, as his first name, 
Severus, is very Latin/Roman)