WARP - Bram Stoker's Dracula

[Iggy McSnurd]

Iggy here:


Ok. Here's one for all you "Snape is a vampire" enthusiasts.  I did snip
out some intervening scenes and revised the two scenes in the castle
when Dracula and Harker first meet. For me, it works better this way,
rather than having to WARP the scenes in between these two.

Enjoy.

Iggy McSnurd




                     BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
			     By - James V. Hart
			  (WARPed by Iggy McSnurd)




NIGHTFALL
                           Borgo Pass
            Harry Potter disembarks from a coach

POTTER:  We're early, driver.  No one is here.

           A fellow passenger hands Potter a crucifix

GIRL (translation):  For the dead travel fast.

 The passenger coach speeds away as Snape's coach approaches
       The coach driver bids Potter to enter and sit down
           The coach speeds away, followed by wolves

POTTER:  I say, is the castle far?

COACHDRIVER:  (No answer)

   The coach speeds up a narrow crag toward Snape's castle
            It passes through a circle of blue fire
               Potter disembarks in the courtyard
     As Potter approaches the castle doors, they swing open
        An old man bearing a lantern enters the chamber

SNAPE:  Welcome to my home.  Enter freely of your own will and
leave some of the happiness you bring.

POTTER:  Professor Snape?

SNAPE:  I am Snape, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Potter, to my
house.  Come in.

                Potter steps over the threshold
             Snape leads him into the dining room

SNAPE:  You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you
but I have already dined and I never drink...wine.

                      Potter begins to eat
            He motions toward a portrait on the wall

POTTER:  An ancestor?  I see a resemblance.

SNAPE:  The Order of the Chiropterans...the Bat...an ancient
society pledging my forefathers to defend the school against all
enemies of Knowledge.  That relationship was not entirely
successful.

POTTER (slightly snickering):  Oh, yes.

       Snape angrily grabs a sword, swings it overhead
                  and points the tip at Potter

SNAPE:  It is no laughing matter.  We Snapes have a right to
be proud.  What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila whose
blood flows in these veins?  Blood is too precious a thing in
these times.  The warlike days are over.  The victories of my
great race are but a tale to be told.  I am the last of my kind.

POTTER:  I have offended you with my ignorance, Professor.  Forgive
me.

                             LATER
                 The Library at Castle Snape
        Snape affixes his seal to the deed of purchase

SNAPE:  I do so long to go through the crowded streets of your
mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and the rush of
humanity, to share its life, its changes, its deaths.

            Potter affixes his signature to the deed

POTTER:  There.  You, Professor, are the owner of Hogwarts School near
Hogsmeade.  Congratulations.

SNAPE:  Your firm writes most highly of your talents.  They
say you are a man of good taste and that you are a worthy
substitute to your predecessor, Mr. Longbottom.

POTTER:  You may rely on me, Professor.  Forgive my curiosity but
why 10 houses in such precise locations around London?  Is it to
raise the market value?

          Snape picks up Potter's photograph of Luna

SNAPE:  Do you believe in destiny, that even the powers of
time can be ordered to a single purpose?  The luckiest man who
walks on this earth is the one who finds true love.

POTTER:  You found Luna.  I thought she was lost.  We're to be
married as soon as I return.  Are you married, Professor?

SNAPE:  (no answer)

POTTER:  Sir, are you married?

SNAPE:  I was married once...ages ago it seems.  She died.

POTTER:  Oh, I'm very sorry.

SNAPE:  She was fortunate. My life at its best is a mystery.
She will no doubt make a devoted wife and you a faithful
husband.  Come, write now, my friend, to your firm and to any
loved ones and say that it should please you to stay with me
until a month from now.

POTTER:  A month?  Do you wish me to stay so long?

SNAPE:  I will take no refusal.





***********  SKIPPING FORWARD A FEW SCENES *************

MEANWHILE

                    T R A N S Y L V A N I A

                         Castle Snape
                      Potter's Bedchamber

JONATHAN POTTER'S JOURNAL, 3Oth May, Castle Snape:  I think
strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.  The
Professor, the way he looked at Luna's picture fills me with dread
as if I have a part to play in a story that is not known to me.

        Potter shaves while looking into a small mirror
               Potter cuts himself with the razor
                         Enter Snape

POTTER:  I didn't hear you come in.

SNAPE:  Take care how you cut yourself.  It is more dangerous
than you think.

                   Snape breaks the mirror

SNAPE:  A foul bauble of man's vanity.  Perhaps you should
grow a beard.

     Snape takes the razor, turns and licks off the blood

SNAPE:  The letters I requested...have you finished them?

               Potter hands Snape three letters

SNAPE:  Good.

                     Snape shaves Potter

SNAPE:  Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any
chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle.  It is old
and has many bad memories.  Be warned.

POTTER:  I'm sure I understand.

          Snape sees a crucifix around Potter's neck
                He snarls and pushes Potter away

SNAPE:  Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit!  We
are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England.  Our ways
are not your ways.  And, to you, there shall be many strange
things.

POTTER:  I've seen many strange things already...bloody wolves
chasing me through some blue inferno!

   Potter peers out the window to see wolves in the courtyard
                           Wolf howl

SNAPE:  Listen to them, the children of the night.  What sweet
music they make.

POTTER:  Music?  Those animals?

                          Exit Snape
                     Exit Snape's shadow
                Potter peers outside the window
  to see Snape crawling, like a reptile, up the castle wall