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

[toonmili]

No: HPFGUIDX 170113

I can't say that Snape is a bigot or a racist.

Well I think in the case of his treatment towards werewolves it has to do with his past experiences.

Let's look at the werewolves Snape knows.

Lupin: He thinks that Lupin was part of the plan.

Greyback: Likes to bite little children even when he is not
transformed.

Supporters of Greyback: Which is just as bad as being greyback
himself.

So history tells him werewolves want to hurt you, eat children and
bite at will.  SO really he doesn't know how a werewolf thinks.

I'm not saying it's right but I think we clearly see where it comes
from.  I don't think JK would be causing harm if Lupin turns out to be evil.   Lupin's flaw is not that he was a werewolf. His flaw is that he is weak.   That's why Snape told Tonks that her patronus looks weak.

Lupin is not a strong person.  Snape has played on that.  In POA he
told everyone that he was a werewolf because he knew that Lupin would
run away.  I'd like to point out that he left before he knew people's
reaction.  He guessed what the reaction would have been and left.
Harry even thought that he looks anxious to leave.  Why?  I think it
would have made more sense to face the music and point out that even
though he is a werewolf he is still able to hold a job.  Instead he
went away for a while.  Which solved nothing.

I don't think Lupin is working for Voldemort but I think we shouldn't
expect too much from him.  He might not be around after the war is
over.

As for calling Lily a mudblood.  Well Snape said it to James.  He
looked at James when he said it.  It's similar to when Malfoy called Hermione a mudblood, she didn't get it and didn't react to it but Ron, Fred and George all got really worked up about it.

I think his intention was to hurt James by calling someone he knew he
fancied a mudblood.  James is pureblood and he knows exactly what the
word means.  Lily is muggle born and he must have thought that she wouldn't understand the insult as much.   But like Hermione after a while she must begin to notice how much of an insult it is.

Besides this is the same man who had HALF BLOOD PRINCE on his book.
When he called Lily a mudblood it was in year five. That potions book
was from NEWT class, meaning year six and seven, who knows if he
would have grown a bit and therefore was willing to accept that he is
halfblood.

Although canon does not say we can assume that Snape's father was the abusive man.  If he is a muggle then it would explain why he has or wants to have a negative perception of muggles and therefore muggle born.  All this may have changed through his interation with Lily (if it happened). As far as canon goes I have never seen adult Snape call anyone a mudblood.  In fact we have only seen Snape call someone a mudblood once and this was in a memory that he wanted to hide from Harry.  We can't take anything we see in the memory as face value.  It's like what Sirius said: We were all idiots at fifteen.  So Snape was idiot too.  He made a mistake, I don't see him repeating it as an adult.

toonmili