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

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 170095

> colebiancardi:
> 
> Did I miss something?  Did I not read the HP books enough?  LOL.  

zgirnius:
One can never read them enough! lol

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

zgirnius:
In the Shack scene, Snape repeatedly refers to Lupin as "the 
werewolf" instead of using his name, and states at one point, "Don't 
ask me to fathom the way a werewolf's mind works," as though the 
thought processes of werewolves as a class differ from those of other 
humans.

He also calls Lily Evans a Mudblood in the infamous Pensieve scene of 
OotP, and is formerly, and still formally, (IMO) a member of a 
terrorist organization the members of which espouse pureblood 
supremacist beliefs.

Given the personal animus and emotional state of Snape towards Lupin 
in the first instance (the basis for which is eloquently explained by 
Carol elsewhere in this thread), and the generally rotten 
circumstances in which Snape found himself in the second, I would 
hesitate to draw the conclusion from these facts that Snape is a 
bigot. Many do not so hesitate.

I don't believe he is, or was. For me the clincher is his own private 
schoolday nickname of "Half-Blood Prince". To me, it seems to be a 
darkly humorous/ironic appellation chosen by a Half-Blood who knows 
quite well there are those who consider him less as a result of that 
unalterable fact of his birth (whether those are some of his 
schoolmates, some Pureblood Princes, or both). I do not think it 
would have been chosen by a bloodist, since he could have chosen to 
keep his half-blood status out of then name entirely.