good and bad Slytherins/Disappointment and Responsibility

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 175374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at ...> wrote:
>
> And Alla replied:
>> I did. He was you know, just being embarassed by being saved by a 
>> girl and who would not call a girl who tried to save you a 
>> Mudblood. Of course I am being sarcastic towards the argument and I 
>> am paraphrasing not my argument.
> 
> A question -- are you really saying that Snape was *justified* in 
> calling Lily a Mudblood, Alla?  Or are you saying that it was an 
> forgivable mistake given the stress Snape was under at the time?  To 
> me, there's a difference.

She's responding to the last bit of your argument--she's saying that
she's seen *the argument* that it was a forgiveable mistake because
Snape was under a lot of stress.

I can't speak for Alla's perception, but I find Carol's post here to
certainly be readable that way:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/172726

"...and the worst memory has to be, as the LOLLIPOPS people have
always argued, because he slipped and called her a Mudblood and she
refused to forgive him even when he slept outside the Gryffindor
common room and abjectly begged her to do so."

-Nora pops in despite being totally behind and needing to work on
other things