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

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170141

wynnleaf:
> Given that Snape *has* got plenty of experience with Lupin in 
> particular, as well as direct experience with the deadly aspect of 
> Lupin in werewolf form, I would by no means call Snape's opinions 
of 
> Lupin "preconceived," made "without knowledge," or "irrational."  
> One might not *agree* with Snape's opinions of Lupin or werewolf!
> Lupin, but I don't think they actually meet the definition of 
> prejudice, nor the true meaning of bigoted.
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Dana:
Tell me is glimpsing Lupin at the end of the tunnel really plenty of 
experience for Snape to understand how deadly a werewwolf can be? 
Because to me it is a little overrated as he never had a deadly 
struggle for his life as a result. Lupin never came within striking 
range of Snape. To me Snape is just brooding on the "what if" and not 
on what he actually experienced. He is not calling Lupin a werewolf 
out of his own experience and out of his own fear but because he 
still believes Lupin was part of the trick Sirius played on him. 

If he truly was scared then he would not have mocked Lupin about his 
problem all year long and he certainly would not have run after him 
to the shack. His so-called experience has nothing to do with the 
prejudice Snape has for Lupin. He just considers him less then human 
because he truly hates his guts. 

Let me ask you this if Snape was not a true bigot then why did he 
never reveal that he was not a pure blood? Because as we see Bella 
calls Harry a filty Half-Blood but she never mentions this to Snape 
when she is in Spinner's End and I'm sure she would have if she had 
known this. 
Seems Snape denies his own background because he doesn't want to be 
judged by it but he throws what ever he can at others and appearently 
the mere idea of the what if has nothing to do with it as Lily tried 
to help him and still gets her bloodstatus thrown at her. I do not 
need help from a girl is seemingly not enough, it has to be the 
biggest insult he could think of. Tell me if Snape did not truly 
think of her as a filthy mudblood then how come it was the first 
thing that came into his mind. If you do not think about people in 
such away then it would never enter you mind not even in a situation 
like that. 

Serverus Snape was walking the same route as many of the other 
Slytherin's meaning that half-bloods, half-breeds and all that were 
not pure are worthless and why he kept his own bloodstatus hidden 
from the rest of them coincidently so does LV. 

JMHO

Dana