Snobby Snape?

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at ...> wrote:

> 
> I was really surprised that Snape turned out to have anti-Muggle 
> feelings. Unlike most of the other Death Eaters, he's half-Muggle 
> himself (and he's not a raving lunatic like Voldemort.) I suppose 
> JKR's rationale was that Snape disliked Muggles because his main 
> experience of them was his cruel Muggle father, or because he felt so 
> different and cut off from the Muggle community where he was raised. 

Pippin:
I think there was a bit more to it than that. The Ministry doesn't
seem to recognize emotional abuse as such, which means a witch
being emotionally abused can't use magic to defend herself or she
risks Azkaban for violating the statutes of secrecy for an
'unprovoked' attack on a Muggle. 

It would be frustrating for Snape to know he had the power to
defend his mother but wasn't allowed to use it. Naturally he'd think the
laws should be changed.  

Pippin