Half vampires (mostly OT)

[Melanie Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 3530

Wow!  Keeping up with this list is a full time job (let alone working on
the FAQs)!

I just wanted to weigh in on the (almost) dead vampire thread.  When I
first saw the term half-vampire on this list, I thought of the 1980s
brat-pack movie "The Lost Boys."  Does anyone remember that one, with
Kiefer Sutherland and the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman)?  "The Lost Boys"
had a very unique vampire folklore.  In that world, IIRC, you became a
half-vampire when you and a vampire drank each other's blood.  Your first
kill made you a full vampire.  But if your sire (the vampire with whom you
exchanged blood) died before you became a full vampire, you became human
again (or maybe it was the head vampire who had to die).  Jason Patric and
Jamie Gertz spent most of the movie as half vampires.  They became human
again when the head vampire was killed (also killing their sire, Kiefer
Sutherland).

In the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" world, I suppose Angel and Spike could
almost be called half vampires.  Angel, because a Gypsy curse gave him back
his conscience, and he chooses not to kill.  Spike, because of a device
that prevents him from attacking humans.

<back to the Harry Potter world>

At the end of PoA, Dean Thomas speculated that they might have a vampire
for a DADA teacher the following year.  When Angel tires of fighting Los
Angeles demons, maybe he should apply.  He certainly has the experience. 
Of course, that doesn't necessarily make him teacher material, but compared
to Quirrell or Lockhart...  I can almost feel a crossover fanfic coming on!

Melanie



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