A Crazy Idea

[Doreen Rich]

No: HPFGUIDX 20095

While I love the idea of Snape being a vampire, (because I love 
Severus Snape and I love vampires) I do not think he fits the 
criteria. 

Aren't vampires supposed to sleep during the day and only come out at 
night? Snape has been mentioned, not only being up during the day, 
but also outside, several times.

There is also the Foe Glass thing ... magic or not, I still think a 
*reflection* is a *reflection* and vampires don't *reflect*.

I like the bat idea. Perhaps Snape *is* a bat animagi, as someone 
suggested. If he is, perhaps that is why Snape *acts* like a vampire 
with his swishing cape ... or was that swirling cape? 

As for too much on the animagi theme ... I think it is we, the group, 
who have done it to death, not JKR. She has only mentioned the 
Marauders, Rita Skeeter, and McGonagall, so far, as animagi. 
McGonagall being the only registered animagi of the seven listed at 
the MOM, I think it very plausible that JKR will write about at least 
a couple more of them. Before anyone says that it can't be Snape, 
because Hermione certainly would have told Harry & Ron, let's 
remember all of the things that Hermione does *not* tell Harry and 
Ron, such as what she knew about Lupin and Skeeter.

Doreen, who thinks it is possible that Snape is an animagi bat.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., devika261 at a... wrote:
> After rereading the 4 HP books for the umpteenth time, I'm again 
trying to 
> find new meanings in things that I may not have noticed 
before...all I know 
> is that I really need book 5 to come out.  But anyway, I've come up 
with a 
> hypothesis, and I thought I'd run it by the group to find out what 
you all 
> thought of it.  Be warned, though, this may sound a bit strange at 
first, but 
> just give it a chance :)
> 
> My hypothesis is about our old friend Professor Snape.  It doesn't 
answer the 
> question of whether he is good or evil, but it's still, IMHO, 
interesting to 
> consider.   OK, here it is...
> 
> Did anyone ever consider the possibility that Snape might be a 
vampire?  I 
> think he could be.  Now, I'm not exactly an expert on vampires, but 
here's my 
> reasoning:
> 
> 1)  JKR has compared him to a bat several times.  For example:
> "Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he?  So useful to have 
him swooping 
> around like an overgrown bat"  (Quirrell, SS, Ch. 17, The Man With 
Two Faces)
> 
> "How fast d'you reckon he [Snape] could have gotten down to the 
forest?  
> D'you reckon he could've beaten you and Dumbledore there?"
> "Not unless he can turn himself into a bat or something," said 
Harry.
> "Wouldn't put it past him," Ron muttered.  (GoF, The Dream)
> 
> I know there's at least one other bat reference, but I can't think 
of where 
> it is at the moment...
> 
> 2)  In GoF,Ch. 35, Veritaserum, after Dumbledore has stunned 
Moody/Crouch and 
> enters the room with McGonagall and Snape, he goes straight to 
Moody.  
> Finding out who Moody really is seems to be his top priority.  
Prof. 
> McGonagall goes right to Harry, so I get the impression that her 
top priority 
> at the moment is his well-being.  Snape, however, goes directly to 
the 
> Foe-Glass, "where his own face was still visible, glaring into the 
room."  
> Why would Snape be so interested in his reflection in the Foe-
Glass?  Yes, it 
> is a magical object that might interest him, but it seems to me 
that he is 
> looking more at his own reflection than at the mirror itself.  Why 
would this 
> be so important to him, especially at a time like this?  Perhaps 
Snape is not 
> used to seeing his reflection in a mirror.  Since the Foe-Glass is 
not an 
> ordinary mirror, it would be able to show Snape's reflection, and 
this would 
> interest Snape if he were a vampire.
> 
> 3)  But if Snape were a vampire, wouldn't he have fangs?  Maybe he 
had them 
> shrunk.  It seems to me that teeth-shrinking may have more uses in 
the books 
> than just as a beauty tool for Hermione.
> Also, vampires are not supposed to be exposed to sunlight.  But if 
there's a 
> potion that prevents werewolves from transforming into monsters, 
it's 
> possible that there is a potion that protects vampires from the 
sun.  And 
> Snape is the potions master...
> 
> There are also many passing references to vampires in all 4 of the 
books--too 
> many, IMO, for vampires not to be important in later books.
> 
> This is all speculation, obviously, and it's proof that I really 
need book 5 
> to come out <g>.  But I thought this was an interesting idea, and I 
would 
> like to know what you all think of it.  Try to prove me wrong, at 
least :)
> 
> Devika (whose job prevents her from reading HP all day--the Flying 
Ford 
> Clinic has yet to decide whether this will reduce her obsession or 
increase 
> her withdrawal symptoms...)
> 
> 
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