Severus Snape watched Alecto Carrow shovel food into her mouth and tried unsuccessfully to keep himself from curling his lip in distaste. The Carrows were thuggish and stupid and cruel, a perfect combination for a loyal footsoldier for the Dark Lord, but if there was one place they excelled, it was their slavish devotion to blood purity. Ironically both of the Carrows were halfbloods, but their father had died under less than certain circumstances when they had both been quite young. Their mother, a vile woman, had raised them full of the same kind of purist insanity that most highborn houses adopted. 