Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190718



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla:
> >
> > But he joined the gang of terrorists who considered Muggleborns lower species of life and to me that shows that yes indeed this was his mindset starting from the time poor Lily asked him that question.
> 
> Bart:
> <snip>
> 
> Similarly, I suspect that Snape, like many bigots, depersonalized the 
> targets of his bigotry, and didn't associate them with people he knew 
> and liked, personally. It is only when Lily becomes the target of Morty 
> that he realizes, "Hey, that's MY friend!" Even then, DD has to push to 
> get Snape to see the extra step that every victim is somebody's friend, 
> and what the Morty and the Deatheaters (whom, good name for a music 
> group) are doing is just plain wrong.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>    Nikkalmati

Remember DD himself espoused these ideas as a young man and he played around with the idea of putting Muggles in their place and ruling the world as wizards.  I imagine the ideas LV espoused were promulgated originally by Grindenwald and had been partly DD's own ideas.  DD was expiating his own crimes by trying to fight bigotry in his old age.

Nikkalmati