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

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No: HPFGUIDX 170211

> Julie:
> <SNIP>
> I do think as presented in canon *so far* we have a definite
> difference between Snape's use of the word "Mudblood" and 
> use of the same word by Draco, Kreacher and Mrs. Black.
> The latter three use the word routinely and in the present
> time within the books. They are definitely bigots. Snape
> however used the term over 20 years in the past, in a 
> single incident. It was a bigoted remark, and whether Snape
> felt strong bigotry towards all "Mudbloods" or was parroting
> what he'd been taught because it was the easiest and cruelest
> way to strike back, I don't know. But I do agree it makes him
> a bigot at the time.
<SNIP>
> So while Draco, Kreacher and Mrs. Black are bigoted, Snape
> was bigoted. Whether Snape remains so is the interesting
> and very much unanswered question (except in our own minds,
> depending on which Snape we individually support!). 


Alla:

Oh, I have to say I do not have much disagreement with your post at 
all, Julie :)

I mean except the fact that we support different Snapes obviously, 
LOLOL.

I absolutely agree that we do not know whether Snape is a bigot 
towards Muggleborns **now**, at this moment in the series and if 
Snape is DD!M, it is totally possible that he is not.

It is what Magpie said basically.

Magpie:
<HUGE SNIP>
> As I said, I know that different people can say things for 
different 
> reasons, but I don't understand the explaining away of clear 
bigoted 
> rhetoric as anything but bigoted rhetoric. 
<HUGE SNIP>


Alla:

The explaining away of what young Snape did is what makes me scratch 
my head. I mean as if it makes it better somehow that he said it when 
he was sixteen. Draco is also sixteen after all and he is saying this 
since much younger age.

So, Julie if you agree that Snape **was** bigot in the past and 
saying that we don't know whether he is right now, that I understand 
and see how you arrive to this.

I consider him to be bigot right now based on werewolf remark , and 
the password in Slytherin dorm, but of course it is possible that he 
did not set up the password and that he does not think bigotedly of 
Muggleborns **anymore**, but to me it is a fact that he did think so 
when he was in school.


And of course I think he is a bigot towards Muggleborns still since 
in my interpretation he is not DD!M, but that is as you said depends 
on which Snape we support.

JMO,

Alla