[HPforGrownups] Reading SS (American version)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3448

mmarth at peoplepc.com wrote:

>
>        I am a believer in Snape being at least part-vampire. <snip> Again,
> I think Snape is at least part-vampire and Quirrell knows
> this, possibly from Voldemort?

What sort of vampires are we talking, here? Folklorically, being part
vampire is like being sort of pregnant. You are or you're not. It's a
magical malady, like lycanthropy. Being preyed upon by a vampire either
kills you, whereupon you usually become one yourself, or it doesn't, and you
recover. But mommy vampires and daddy vampires don't make little ones; how
can someone be part vampire?

--Amanda