About what? About being geeky, poor, and uncool? About being "Dark"? About being a Pureblood supremacist? (Himself being a "filthy half-blood"?) We don't know.
The only thing she specifically accused him of that night was having the wrong other friends: "You and your precious little Death Eater friends--" Which was ALSO the only thing she accused him of in their previous quarrel: "I don't like some of the people you're hanging round with!"
And she never gave him a chance to choose her over them, just cut him off completely at the moment he might finally have realized he might have to. It's clear which he would have chosen, had Lily given him the option. As Dumbledore's double agent, he BETRAYED the Death Eaters, including his friends Mulciber and Avery, turning them in to be tortured by Aurors and Dementors. To try, unavailingly, to save Lily.
'But you call EVERYONE of my birth Mudblood, Severus'.
Well, either that's true, and she never called him on it before or stayed friends with him despite his refusal to change, or it isn't true, and she was again accusing him by association.
I DIDN'T make or stay "best friends" with anyone in my home town who called the other part-Chippewas "squaw," even if they refrained from using the term to me.
So if a black girl allowed her mixed-race "best friend" to get away (for YEARS, you tell me) with calling the slightly-darker kids "n--" why should he expect her to get so bent out of shape when he used the term about her?
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Date: 2009-08-12 08:18 pm (UTC)About what? About being geeky, poor, and uncool? About being "Dark"? About being a Pureblood supremacist? (Himself being a "filthy half-blood"?) We don't know.
The only thing she specifically accused him of that night was having the wrong other friends: "You and your precious little Death Eater friends--" Which was ALSO the only thing she accused him of in their previous quarrel: "I don't like some of the people you're hanging round with!"
And she never gave him a chance to choose her over them, just cut him off completely at the moment he might finally have realized he might have to. It's clear which he would have chosen, had Lily given him the option. As Dumbledore's double agent, he BETRAYED the Death Eaters, including his friends Mulciber and Avery, turning them in to be tortured by Aurors and Dementors. To try, unavailingly, to save Lily.
'But you call EVERYONE of my birth Mudblood, Severus'.
Well, either that's true, and she never called him on it before or stayed friends with him despite his refusal to change, or it isn't true, and she was again accusing him by association.
I DIDN'T make or stay "best friends" with anyone in my home town who called the other part-Chippewas "squaw," even if they refrained from using the term to me.
So if a black girl allowed her mixed-race "best friend" to get away (for YEARS, you tell me) with calling the slightly-darker kids "n--" why should he expect her to get so bent out of shape when he used the term about her?