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

[colebiancardi]

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> > 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. 

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> Alla:
> 
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> And another thing, which I did not put in my previous post as to why 
> I interpret Snape remark as prejudice against all werewolves.
> 
> He does not say I do not understand how Lupin's mind works, neither 
> does he say - I do not understand how this werewolf's mind works.
> 
> He just says "werewolf's mind". To me it seems that he refers to all 
> werewolfes.
> 
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colebiancardi:

Question:  if the only way "new" werewolves are created is by a
werewolf biting a human, isn't that justification for not liking
werewolves in general?  Per ancient lore, that is the only way
werewolves can procreate new werewolves.  And even Lupin recognizes
that he is a danger to humans when he is in his werewolf state,
because he cannot control himself - at all.  When he is a werewolf, he
will attack anyone, including loved ones, as seen in PoA.

Perhaps it isn't bigotry, but a deep concern for not creating new
werewolves, because according to lore, werewolves also kill humans,
not just bite them.  

As far as Snape's comment of "he does not understand how a werewolf's
mind works" - Isn't Lupin a werewolf?  That is what Lupin is - a
werewolf.  He isn't fully human anymore.  His mind & body & soul is
taken over on a monthly basis by his other, darker side.  And yes, I
view werewolves as darker creatures, due to how to they must procreate
to continue a new line of werewolves.  

If that is bigotry, then the Trio is guilty of it too - look at how
they justify Hagrid's love of dangerous creatures to him being
half-Giant.  Ron even states that Hagrid is "mental" for mourning
Aragog, who did tell the other spiders if was ok to eat Harry & Ron(or
at least, didn't stop them).  

I know what JKR has compared Lupin's werewolfishness to a disease, but
I also look to the lore behind werewolves as well, which JKR has drawn
from.   Lupin seems to be the exception to the lore (he doesn't relish
biting or killing humans and doesn't want to), but again, I view him
as the exception, not the rule.

colebiancardi