Snape - a werewolf bigot?? Was: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 170091

 Jordan:
> >  I know you meant real people rather than characters, but...  
> > > that's part of the "meat" behind this argument against ESE!
> Lupin: If  
> > > Lupin is ESE, Snape is right for being an anti-werewolf bigot, 
> and  
> > > that's not a message that JKR would be putting in the books.
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > But Snape's anti-werewolf bigotry alienated Harry and convinced
> > him to aid Lupin, so if it turns out that Lupin was guilty, Snape's
> > bigotry will be exposed as counterproductive. 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> That's one interpretation - another is that Snape bigotry will be 
> encouraged by the author. I mean, the bigot, who does not know how 
> werewolf mind works turns out to be right - such werewolf is evil.
> 
> Yeah, as a reader I am able to figure out for myself that regardless 
> of whether Lupin is evil or not, Snape's bigotry is disgusting, I 
> still do not want to think that JKR will even implicitly encourage 
> that. Her right as a writer obviously, but my right as a reader to 
> dislike it as well.
> 
<snipping out the rest>

colebiancardi:

Did I miss something?  Did I not read the HP books enough?  LOL.  No,
really - when did Snape become a bigot against "werewolves"?  Quite
frankly, I don't know what Snape thinks about werewolves in general -
I do know how he feels about one particular werewolf, Lupin, and IMHO,
his hatred for Lupin has nothing to do with Lupin's werewolfishness
(is that a word?  If not, I just made one up!!), but due to the
highschool hatred for the Marauders, which was fully recipicated.  

I believe that all of Snape's actions, which for the most part is
snide talk (note, I SAY MOST) and it is just the same old wounds that
Snape keeps picking at instead of trying to heal. 

If someone could point out the "bigot" and "racist" Snape in the
books, I would appreciate it.

colebiancardi
(Snape is a lot of things, but now a bigot??)