[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190738

> > Nikkalmati
>
> > The ideas Snape embraces on the superiority of wizards over Muggles,
> which are promoted by LV, came from DD and Grindenwald. DD is atleast partly
> responsible for LV and his Death Eaters and
>
> he probably knows it.
>


Bookcrazzzy

While DD and Grindelwald adopted the Wizard superiority stance, I think
there is plenty in canon to support the idea that it existed long before
they came along.  You have a number of pure-blood families who have clearly
cherished that bloodline and "protected it from contamination" over
centuries.  The wars with the goblins and bad feelings over wand rights come
to mind as do problems between wizards and other "higher" magical creatures
like merpeople and centaurs.  Both merpeople and centaurs rejected the
classification of human beings because of long-held resentments over the way
they had been treated by wizards.   I think DD was deeply ashamed of his
past and tried to make reparations later in life but I don't think he felt
responsible for LV and the Death Eaters in the way that you mean.  He might
feel that he could have handled things differently with the young Tom Riddle
or insisted on being secret keeper for James and Lily or done other things
differently, but not that he "created" the whole idea of wizard superiority.

JMO,

Bookcrazzzy


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