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

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 170107

Alla wrote:
 
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.
 
Julie:
That's a very interesting point, Alla! I've never actually thought about 
who, if anyone, creates or changes the passwords for each House.
I don't recall any definitive canon about it either, though the Head  of
House is as good a guess as any. Another possibility is a  long-standing
list of passwords for each House that are routinely shuffled (in which 
case "Mudblood" might have been created years, decades, even  centuries
earlier). 

In any case, I'm not sure it matters. Until we read DH I don't think  we're
really going to know how much of what Snape has said and done 
throughout the books comes from his heart and his true beliefs, and
how much is manufactures to protect his cover as Voldemort's  spy.
(Though I do believe everything about Snape's feelings toward the
Marauders and his enmity toward the boy he almost always sees as
"James Potter's son" is genuine. I just doubt most everything else!)
 
Which means I don't necessarily believe Snape is a bigot. If we'd  been
given even one instance where he denigrates werewolves in general, or
"mudbloods" in general, then the case would be closed. But since he
used/uses each of those insults to express enmity toward a specific 
person (Lily for seeing his humiliation, Lupin for being complicit in  the
many crimes of the Marauders), that leaves Snape's bigotry status
unclear (as I think Magpie said, many humans have been known to
use bigotry, especially adolescents, for strictly personal attacks  while
not necessarily feeling any bigotry toward a population in general).
 
I'm a DDM!Snape supporter who still agrees that  Snape remains in many
ways an arrested adolescent, BTW ;-) So was Sirius, for different  reasons.
Peter is just an arrested asshole, I suppose. As for Lupin, well, I'm  less
and less sure what Lupin is. A while ago I scoffed internally and  summarily
dismissed Pippin's various ESE!Lupin arguments (sorry, Pippin). But  the
conspicuous lack of information on why Lupin was suspected as a  traitor by
James and Sirius, and where Lupin was during the 12 years before  POA (a
mere word or two about either would have been sufficient to  explain but for
some reason the characters--and JKR--remain mum), along  with Lupin's odd
reaction to Dumbledore's death...it's all starting to get to me!
 
All I can say now is...Lupin, WHO are you???
 
Julie,
who now has the theme to CSI inexplicably running through her head  ;-)







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