Narcissa / Divorce / Kill Or Not? / Returning With Slytherins?/ Myers-Briggs

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 2 18:07:06 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 185616

Catlady:
> > Nitpick: Did she show us anything to indicate that Phineas
Nigellus was not a decent human being, other than Sirius saying 'the
most hated Headmaster Hogwarts ever had'? 
> 
Kemper replied:
> 
> Phineas refers to Hermione as 'The Mudblood' in The Prince's Tale
Snape cuts him off and commands, "Do not use that word!"  

Carol responds:

Maybe Phineas Nigellus is just the product of his own generation and
upbringing. He reminds me of people in the South who routinely used
the "N" word, refined to "Nigra" by about the 1950s, because it was
the word they had been taught.

Phineas Nigellus is without question a Pure-Blood snob, insulting
Mundungus as something like a "filthy Half-blood" (which may indicate
that he doesn't know Snape's blood status), but he loves his
"worthless" great-great-grandson and is genuinely distressed to hear
that he's dead, and he submits to Snape's reprimand quite meekly and
serves him eagerly, knowing that he's helping Harry and Portrait!DD
against Voldemort.

Carol, who likes snide, wily old Phineas, especially his remarks to
Harry about teenagers thinking that they alone have suffered





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