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

[Annemehr]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy@> 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?
> 

Anne:
Well, if you're going to argue something that mushy, there's no point 
arguing at all; the answer to every question would be "who knows?"

I think Judy's canon is sound.

Pippin:
> 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?
> 

Anne:
Sort of.  The possible answers involved which department of the 
Ministry you'd sic on her.  And one of them was "none of the above."