Snape and vampirism

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20186

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jennye & Michael Woolf" <jennyemike-1 at m...> wrote:
> First off, I want to introduce myself to the list since this is my first
> posting. My name is Jennye, I am 29, married and have a baby who doesn't yet
> appreciate HP, but I am sure he will!
> 
> That said, I want to jump in on this thread. I had just been following it
> and was on the Snape-is-not-a-vampire side when I was rereading PoA. After
> Snape assigned the werewolf essay to the DADA class to try to get the class
> to realize that Lupin was a werewolf, Lupin later assigned a vampire essay
> to the class (granted it was a few months later, but still...) It was the
> only essay that they discussed at length that they had to do for Lupin,
> *and* Lupin made a point of mentioning that he was having the students write
> the vampire essay when he rescued Harry and Ron from Snape's office when
> Snape found the Marauder's Map on Harry.
> 
> Just my 2 Knuts on the subject.
> 
> Jennye

That's good spotting!  I'd missed that completely.
Admittedly, I've missed a lot of things that are
out in plain sight.  Speed reading, I'm afraid.

I'm not sure that I want Snape to be a vampire, though.
I'm still dodging detailed discussion of GoF until I
get my own copy, but I've picked up that it's revealed
that he has - well, a criminal record, let's say -
and is a rather more sympathetic character than he
seems to be at first (or so some people think).
I feel that that's enough trouble for one character
to have to cope with, without craving the blood of
his students all the time as well.  That's assuming
that being a vampire is inconvenient in daily life,
which might not be the case once JKR has worked over
the concept.

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!