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

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 170155

Dung:

> Did she ever clarify *whose* reaction she was referring 
> to? Society's reactions to people with illnesses and 
> disabilities, or on an individual level, how disabled 
> people react to their own illness or disability?

houyhnhnm:

It did occur to me that she might have meant the 
latter.  That is not the way the quotation has been 
used in argument, however.

If Lupin is an example of how someone may be warped 
by having an incurable illness, it makes a lot more 
sense.  Then Lupin becomes a kind of parallel to Snape.  
In the case of both characters the wrongs they committed 
are acknowledged, but the reader is also encouraged to 
feel compassion for them because of the circumstances 
that drove them to commit those wrongs.

I can live with that.  I'm not dreading July 21 quite 
so much now.  I've already shelled out my $21.98, but 
the money is nothing compared to the emotional investment 
in a story that could turn out to have what, for me, 
would be a shallow and emotionally unsatisfying ending.