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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 170097

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.  


> 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.
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> But since I speculate that Snape thought of werewolves as dark 
> creatures not worth compassion before prank, I am afraid I do not 
> even understand.
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> I of course think of mudblood in Pensieve scene and password to 
> Slytherin dorms in CoS, which I do not buy for a second was created 
> by somebody else but Snape IMO.


Jen:  He could be a bigot; that could end up being part of the reason 
he became a DE and you lined up canon for it.  

I could also see the comment as Snape using words as a weapon to 
wound Lupin in this particulary instance.  Snape seems to like 
reminding people where they're weak or where he thinks they're weak.  
Maybe it feeds his own sense of being more powerful than he was as a 
boy, weak once too if his words during Occlumency speak about his own 
life.  In this scene, Lupin has just told a story that Snape 
overheard about how horrible werewolf transformations were for him 
and how he became a 'monster' once a month.  I think mainly Snape is 
sticking a verbal knife into Lupin.  Not exactly a compassionate guy 
but not sure if a bigot, either.