Dumbledore Disgusted (was: Snape's Request gave Harry a second chance?)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 175912

Potioncat, snipping all of Ceridwin's post, and agreeing with 99% of 
it. Now  snipping parts of Alla's post:


> 
> Alla: 
> Why? Because I would realise what an idiot I had been and this 
person 
> while considering me to be **the good jew** would still think that 
> all other people of my descent are beneath him.
> 
> I would run for my life from such a person. I give a lot of credit 
to 
> Lily for sticking with Snape for so long.
> 
> She must have really liked him as a friend, if she was willing to 
> ignore that for so long IMO.

Potioncat:

I agree.

It's a common theme in literature of  Antebellum and Segregated 
Southern US. Childhood friends who reach a point toward adulthood 
where the difference becomes a major barrier. 

Severus has been overlooking Lily's unfortunate circumstance of 
birth. He likes her in spite of it. He pays no attention to the 
elephant in the room. But it is an important issue where anyone else 
is concerned. 

That is, he judges others by their birth. Whether he grew into that, 
or felt that way all along, I'm not sure. I can't really blame Lily. 
But it's telling that she doesn't break until he calls 'her' a 
Mudblood.

I still can't grasp why Severus was so well accepted by the 
Slytherins. His mother 'married' a Muggle. He's a Half-blood. But 
Half-bloods seem to be tolerated among the Pureblood sector. Of 
course, I wonder if Severus would have been allowed to date 
Mulciber's sister? 



 (Alla's post about DD letting Snape leave the Hogshead.)
> Alla:
> 
>  I do not see how it follows from 
> Aberforth holding him to Dumbledore could do whatever he wanted and 
> chose to let him go. 

Potioncat:
I think DD could have stopped Snape from leaving if he had chosen to 
do so. He had some reason. Prior to DH, I might have thought DD was 
giving him a chance---but now I don't think so.