[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as vampire

[Amber]

No: HPFGUIDX 20297


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kelley" <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:
> 
> Actually, two other people have already since posted it:  Lupin's 
> assigning the vampire essay.  This was my canon-clincher; read that
> scene again when Snape catches Harry just after the mud-slinging 
> scene.  Read especially where Snape calls Lupin in to discuss the 
> Map; the last thing Snape says in this scene is "You don't think it
> more likely that he got it directly from the manufacturers?"  Next 
> is when Ron comes barging in and Lupin takes the Map back.  Doesn't 
> seem very Snape-like for him not to say another word in all this. 
> THEN is when Lupin tells the boys he needs a word with them about the

> vampire essay; 

Perhaps I'm being completely obtuse, but why would Snape be malicious
about Lupin's werewolf heritage if Snape himself is a vampire? I can
understand Snape hating Lupin because he was friends with James/Sirius
and because of the "trick" but if he was a vampire, you would think
he'd have enough empathy to not twit Lupin about being a werewolf. 

Or maybe not. This *is* Snape we're talking about. <ducks books thrown
by SnapeFans> But if *I* was a creature of the night, I'd be careful
about being prejudiced against another person just because they were a
creature of the night as well. If Snape were hiding his heritage (and
if he weren't, we'd have known about it in Book 1), it doesn't make
sense to assign the essay on werewolves to expose Lupin when Lupin
could turn around and expose Snape. Rather daft in my opinion, and
Snape does *not* strike me as daft.

~Amber


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