CHAPDISC:HBP19,Elf Tails/Draco the teenager

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 157521


> bboyminn:
> 
> No, I don't personally think that Hagrid's actions are bigoted. He 
is
> responding to an insult with an insult, but it is Filch who levels 
the
> first insult. 

Magpie:
He's responding to an insult with a specific kind of insult.  If a 
person of a different race than I am insults me and I respond with a 
racial slur, that doesn't make the slur any less racist. 

Steve:
 
> Would Filch have taken the same attitude with any of the other
> teachers? I don't think so. 

Magpie:
So?  Nobody's questioning that Filch is not respecting Hagrid's 
authority.  Hagrid didn't have to respond to that by bringing in 
Filch's birth defect. 


-m