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

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 170093

> 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??)
>


Alla:

Heeee, no dear, I do not think you missed anything. We just interpret same
canon differently. I think that his I do not know how werewolf mind works
means that he is bigoted against all werewolves, not just Lupin.

Now, believe me, if it turns out that that is what he started thinking after
prank, I will understand, I will still not like it but understand.



Sherry:

I would not understand it.  If Lupin represents disability and illness in
the WW JKR has created, then Snape being bigoted against all werewolves
because of one would be like someone hating all blind people because one
cheated, stole or tried to murder.  I think Snape is prejudiced against
werewolves in general--the way he refers to and speaks to Lupin--and against
Lupin in particular.  Neither do I think the message that Snape's bigotry
was counter productive is very productive in itself, considering that's a
pretty subtle message in a kid's book.

Sherry