Heh--Yes, I've seen the Snape minus the DE part for a long time too. With Draco it mostly was gotten around by the fact that he was so young, that he was just parroting stuff his father said. And it's not that that wasn't necessarily true, it's just that there's a point where it doesn't matter how a person comes to be that way. Like with Snape it's easy to believe that Pureblood Supremecy beliefs were not something he always had like Malfoy and Regulus did, but they appealed to him at some point. Even if his calling Lily a Mudblood was the first time he ever used the word, it was obviously the start of a long road of those beliefs.
Trying to get rid of the Muggle in himself does make perfect sense given what we've seen. Tom Riddle seems to want to do the same thing (he even associates Muggles with death while demanding immortality for himself). It's funny that JKR basically gives Harry the same situation, a horrible Muggle family to hate and really no Muggles to love at all. It's just that thanks to Voldemort's crimes and his beliefs the Pureblood supremecy thing doesn't appeal to him as much!
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Date: 2006-05-15 04:30 pm (UTC)Trying to get rid of the Muggle in himself does make perfect sense given what we've seen. Tom Riddle seems to want to do the same thing (he even associates Muggles with death while demanding immortality for himself). It's funny that JKR basically gives Harry the same situation, a horrible Muggle family to hate and really no Muggles to love at all. It's just that thanks to Voldemort's crimes and his beliefs the Pureblood supremecy thing doesn't appeal to him as much!