A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[melclaros]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
The mythical centaurs were, with 
> one exception, uncivilized boorish rowdies.

As are Rowling's. If you have any doubts about that, ask Umbridge. How
many times has Fierenze (her exception) had to save someone from his
cronies?

 And while the sirens 
> were lovely, the merpeople of Celtic lands were far more 
> grotesque than the characters JKR describes.

Well technichally those are selkies.

 
>But then, JKR doesn't seem to have 
> much use for purists, does she?


Honestly, I don't think she's put as much thought into any of this as
most of us have. For the most part, she's written what she needs to
write to serve her plot. If she needs goblins to work in a bank then
that's what she writes. If *I* were to write goblins, they'd likely
end up as lawyers. You can't deny *that* would be pretty grim.

Mel