Courtly love in Potterverse WAS: What triggered ancient magic?

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No: HPFGUIDX 187145

Pippin:
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Algie no doubt would swear he was certain that Neville was magical, and was
only trying to put the matter to rest. And had he been wrong, it would probably
have all been hushed up, and everyone would have quietly agreed, after the
second firewhiskey, that it was for the best. <SNIP>

Alla:

We just see it differently. I am not disputing that Neville could have died had he been not magical, but I see no proof in canon that Uncle Algie deliberately put his life in danger and could not care less about it.  What if he was indeed truly convinced that Neville is magical? Careless of him? Maybe, if he did not have a charm ready.  By the way, I mentioned an example of how he could be saved, I did not mean that cushioning charm is the *only* way to do so. But in any event I do not see how we can compare him with somebody who put the baby in mortal danger and when coming to somebody who theoretically at least could save this baby not to ask for his life?

Sorry,  I do not even see where you are coming from with the idea (if that's your idea)  that Uncle Algie and Snape are anywhere close to each other on the scale of putting babies' life in danger.



Alla:
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> There is a big difference to me between disowning and killing. And somehow I
speculate that even Snape's mother loved him and certainly did not want him to
dead, I doubt that this he could learn even in his childhood. No, I think he too
eagerly learned the philosophy of his master – innocent lives including babies
are worth nothing, etc.

Pippin:
<SNIP>
Alla, Lucius Malfoy sent his own child to safety and then went off to torture
some Muggles, including two children. That's the pureblood way: every life is
not worth the same, and only some lives are worth saving.

Alla:

Sorry, you lost me again here Pippin. Yes, that is exactly what Lucius Malfoy did, what does it prove or disprove in regards to my thought about Snape learning his master's philosophy?

The only thing I would dispute here is that I would say that it is not a pureblood way, it is to me a Death Eater's way who just happens to be a pureblood.

Oh wait, did you mean that I should have put a qualifier in my sentence about Snape's learning his master's philosophy? That pureblood life for Voldemort is worth saving more than non pureblood? I do not see it if that's what you meant. James was a pureblood, Longbottoms were purebloods. Maybe I will put a qualifier that the lifes of those who do not support him are worth nothing to him, but I thought that was obvious.


JMO,

Alla