[HPforGrownups] Re: Vampires

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3796

Just incidentally, or as my mom used to say, for your Table of Useless
Information, folkloric vampires don't drink blood. They're harbingers of
pestilence; they make people sick. Again, for those who'd like to know lots
about the origins of the legends, Paul Barber's "Vampires, Burial, and Death" is
wonderful. I didn't find it particularly gruesome, but I didn't mind biology
class, either.

--Amanda

Jinx wrote:

> About Brooks's comment on vampires: There are numerous variations on
> > the vampire myth, and though I am not that knowledgable about them, I
> > have heard two contrasting versions, one in which anyone who is
> > killed by a vampire becomes a vampire, and one in which the vampire
> > has to let the victim drink from him/her.  In any case, their one
> > method of reproduction is to kill humans and make them vampires, so
> > it would be hard to see how Snape could be half vampire.  If the
> > fetus theory is true, the absorption of some of the vampire blood
> > woud probably be enough to make him a TOTAL vampire.  It really is an
> > all or nothing deal.  Anyway, I think the Snape as vampire theory is
> > utter balderdash, based on totally circumstantial evidence, but it is
> > so popular, I am forced to at least consider it.  I'll admit it's
> > interestng to talk about, even if I don't believe it for one second.
>
> In the Vampire: The Masquerade fantasy game, there's half-vampires known as
> ghouls.  They're mortals who serve vampires and are given vampire blood to
> drink.  This renders them immune to all illnesses, stops them ageing, makes
> them heal faster, and allows them to learn some vampire powers, as well as
> use the vampire blood for various things.  Yet they're still human, and will
> revert to human if all the vampire blood in them gets used up and they
> aren't given anymore.  (Unless they've lived past their normal lfietime, in
> which case they die.)  Snape may be something similar, except I don't think
> he's bound to a vampire master in the same way ghouls are.
>
> However, if Snape is vampiric, I think it's likely he's a pure one who
> controls his condition with a potion.
>
> Jinx
>
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