Hooked nose (was: Importance of Audience (was Re: Dumbledore or Snape))

[Nicolau C. Saldanha]

No: HPFGUIDX 141501

Pippin:
> 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.


This is the kind of association that makes ESE!Snape profoundly
disturbing to me. If Snape, the impopular nerd with oily hair, turns
out to be ESE, and the best that Slytherin house has to offer is
Slughorn, than the whole Harry Potter series turns out to encourage 
prejudice, IMO. Unwillingly on the part of JKR, I am sure, but still.
The fact that Dumbledore complains about Draco calling Hermione a
mudblood does not negate this: it is very easy and common to complain
about prejudice and let it creep in through the back door. That is why
I *want* Snape to be good, redeemed, DDM, whatever: not so much for
the sake of the soul of an immaginary character, rather for the sake
of the soul of a real book. 

Nicolau 
(who both thinks and hopes that Snape did not kill Dumbledore)