Pansy/ Re: House characteristics

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 150635


> Alla:
> 
> Hey, thanks for the quotes Zara. :) I left in the only one which to 
> me could somehow explain why JKR does not want the girls to be like 
> her.
> 
> You see, all other quotes you brought up show to me that Pancy can 
> be insulting, which is not good indeed, not in my book anyway.
> 
> But she does not DO anything IMO, moreover, she does not talk along 
> the lines of the "pureblood philosophy", which I personally find ( 
> and IMO JKR does too) the most disgusting feature of the Slytherin 
> House.

zgirnius:
You must have missed the quotes from OotP, when Umbridge was 
observing Hagrid's class. In it Pansy does not display any 'pureblood 
supremacist' views, but she certainly plays right along with 
Umbridge's bigotry against the sentient non-human magical creatures. 
(Which in my opinion is an equally objectionable form of bigotry, I 
see no evidence that Olympe Maxime or Hagrid are of sub-normal 
intelligence or unusually prone to violence). It is at this point 
public knowledge that Hagrid is half-giant. And Pansy tells Umbridge 
that she can't understand Hagrid's explanations in class because 
he 'grunts'. I'd say this is displaying a form of bigotry.
Or exploiting it, at any rate, which I find equally objectionable.