Salazar, Slytherins and Bigotry

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179943

> > a_svirn:
> > I think it *is* about pure-blood mania, though. The great
> > showdown  between Harry and Voldemort is about "mastering Death",
> > yes. But the controversy between Slytherin and the other houses,
> > is about this pure-blood thing.
> 
> 
> Mike:
> Someone get the smelling salts, cuz this one is going to knock 
Betsy 
> over. I agree with Betsy! This whole fight wasn't over pure-
bloodism.
> 
> Voldemort was never about pure-bloods. How could he be, he wasn't 
one 
> and he was the greatest wizard ever, just ask him. In the first 
book 
> Quirrell told us who Voldemort was; "There is no good and evil, 
there 
> is only power, and those too weak to seek it..." <PS/SS p. 291, US> 
> There is no room for pure-bloodism in that equation. 
> 
> Voldemort used pure-blood mania as a red herring for his followers. 
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a_svirn:
Seems to me you are agreeing with me rather than with Betsy, because 
that' exactly what I said. *Voldemort* himself didn't give a ... 
well, straw about muggle-borns, but his followers (most of whom where 
Slytherins) did, very much so. Which is precisely why he needed that 
particular Red Herring. And that is what I meant: the fight with 
Voldemort was about that mad "wrong immortality" stuff, but the 
Hogwarts Houses controversy was about pure-bloodism.