[HPforGrownups] Why did Snape call Lily a 'Mudblood'?

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 177554

Jen Reese wrote:
> 
> Wow, it's a slow list day! I've got a question for a slow day: why
> *did* Snape call Lily a Mudblood?  Also, I'm curious how others read
> Snape's Worst Memory given his new memories in DH.  Did the resolution
> work for you?  I'm on the fence about this part.

Now I realize why it's Snape's =worst= memory.  Previously that
had puzzled me a bit, how a person who'd been a DE could have a
schoolyard humiliation in the top spot.  But we only got the
first half of the memory in OotP, because that's when Snape
interrupts Harry (and now we know why Snape was so hot & bothered
about =that,= too!); the second half makes clear that the
incident led to a definitive break with Lily.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>