Snape's anti-muggle feelings (was Re: Snobby Snape?)

[pippin_999]

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

> 
> In fact, we see Lily's parents and sister on Platform 9&3/4, and 
> Hermione's parents go shopping in Diagon Alley, so there seems to be 
> no real attempt to keep magic a secret from immediate family members 
> of magic users. Tobias Snape had both a magical son and a magical 
> wife, so keeping the existence of magic a secret from him would have 
> been even more pointless than keeping it secret from the Grangers or 
> Evans.  

Pippin:
And the Ministry of Magic doesn't have any pointless, silly laws on
the books that it can enforce selectively whenever it likes? When,
for instance, anti-Muggle attacks are on the rise and they need a
convenient scapegoat or two, like Stan Shunpike or Hagrid? Is
there some reason to think they *wouldn't* bring trumped-up
charges against Mme Snape?

Wasn't there something in the WOMBAT's about a witch who
turned her Muggle husband into a table and what charges she
would face?

Judy:
> Poor Severus' childhood strikes me as tragic.  It's one of the 
> reasons why I have so much synpathy for the character.


Pippin:
Agreed.

Pippin