JKR and the boys/ Dark Magic and Snape

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 161488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
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> > Sydney:
> > > Then there's that JKR's placed Snape in an industrial northern town.
> > >  That carries a lot of baggage-- there were huge race riots in the
> > mill town of Bradford in the mid-nineties, Yorkshire is the stronghold
> > > of the British National Party, and it's also where the 7/7 bombers
> > > were from.  
> 
> > Carol:
> > "Race" in what sense? If you mean the antagonism between Yorkshire and
> > the southern counties, you can see that in the era of Richard III, who
> > died in 1485, and probably before. As you say, it's a class thing, not
> > race, with the Southerners regarding the Northerners as almost
> > barbarians and the Northerners seeing the Southerners as soft and
> > corrupt.
 
Geoff:
For information, Richard III was involved in the Wars of the Roses which were 
between the houses of Lancaster and York both of which were in the North.

My mother came from Lancashire, where I grew up; my father was a 
Yorkshireman so I'm a genuine Tudor with very firm Northern roots.
:-)