Featured Topic #3: Snape and Blood Prejudice
Featured Topic #3: Snape and Blood Prejudice
I felt like writing an essay on this subject, so "Snape and Blood Prejudice" is the next Featured Topic. I think we can all agree that Snape did and said racist things in his youth. So the big question for this topic is: Why?
Feel free to answer that question with theories as to what was going on in Snape’s messed up noggin. We aren’t looking for excuses, just explanations. Some sub-questions would be things like: How was Snape’s prejudice formed? What path did it travel? At what points was he a true believer? Exactly how far did he come in getting over blood prejudice (including anti-Muggle prejudice)? How did blood prejudice affect Snape, as a half-blood that was half and half?
Feel free to write an essay if there is an aspect of Snape and his relationship with blood prejudice that you would like to explore in detail. My latest essay on the subject will follow this post.
You can also read and respond to my first essay on the subject entitled Severus Snape and Prejudice where I presented my theory to answer the question of “why a dirt poor half-blood who was in love with a Muggle-born girl, got involved with a classist pure-blood supremacist movement”, if you like.
Also, feel free to rec an essay on the subject or to rec a fic that deals with the subject.
Heck, feel free to write a fic that deals with the subject, if you are feeling inspired. Or perhaps do a piece of art. (Maybe a picture of the scene where Snape says “Don’t use that word!” to Phineas Nigellus, if you are looking for something that isn’t so depressing).
Mod note: I know this is a topic that has caused much wank in the past, in other corners of Snape fandom, and is not the happiest topic (I’ll try and pick something less intense for the next topic). I think if we can all agree that blood prejudice is a form of racism and that Snape did and said racist things in his youth, we can avoid the wank here. To put it another way, don’t argue against those two points here. This group was created to avoid that kind of wank, so don’t do it. Thank you.
I felt like writing an essay on this subject, so "Snape and Blood Prejudice" is the next Featured Topic. I think we can all agree that Snape did and said racist things in his youth. So the big question for this topic is: Why?
Feel free to answer that question with theories as to what was going on in Snape’s messed up noggin. We aren’t looking for excuses, just explanations. Some sub-questions would be things like: How was Snape’s prejudice formed? What path did it travel? At what points was he a true believer? Exactly how far did he come in getting over blood prejudice (including anti-Muggle prejudice)? How did blood prejudice affect Snape, as a half-blood that was half and half?
Feel free to write an essay if there is an aspect of Snape and his relationship with blood prejudice that you would like to explore in detail. My latest essay on the subject will follow this post.
You can also read and respond to my first essay on the subject entitled Severus Snape and Prejudice where I presented my theory to answer the question of “why a dirt poor half-blood who was in love with a Muggle-born girl, got involved with a classist pure-blood supremacist movement”, if you like.
Also, feel free to rec an essay on the subject or to rec a fic that deals with the subject.
Heck, feel free to write a fic that deals with the subject, if you are feeling inspired. Or perhaps do a piece of art. (Maybe a picture of the scene where Snape says “Don’t use that word!” to Phineas Nigellus, if you are looking for something that isn’t so depressing).
Mod note: I know this is a topic that has caused much wank in the past, in other corners of Snape fandom, and is not the happiest topic (I’ll try and pick something less intense for the next topic). I think if we can all agree that blood prejudice is a form of racism and that Snape did and said racist things in his youth, we can avoid the wank here. To put it another way, don’t argue against those two points here. This group was created to avoid that kind of wank, so don’t do it. Thank you.