TBAY: Werewolves, Vampires and Secret Missions

[frankielee242]

No: HPFGUIDX 42189

The morning sun glitters on the calm waters of Theory Bay. A number of
anchored ships bob gently in the breeze. Beside them, rigging from
scuttled boats break the surface like drowned trees. On a grassy dune
near the mouth of the harbor, Frankie gathers up a number of loose
boards bearing an assortment of letters and chirps to a hobbled kelpie
grazing nearby.

?Think everyone is awake yet, hmmm??  she asks. ?Well, come on then.? 

The kelpie shakes his mane of bulrushes and snorts. Already barefoot,
Frankie swings a tan leg over his back and gathers up the reins, but
the kelpie needs no encouragement to leap into the water. They swim
towards the anchored ships from which cigarette smoke, the scent of
coffee and snatches of conversation drift across the water.

> "But," says Pippin, "I still say there is no mutual exclusion 
> between Snape is a Vampire and Snape Loved Lily. "
> 
> Pip!Squeak shuffled her feet in embarrassment. 'Snape is a 
> half-vampire' is a theory she could live with, except:
> 
> "Well, we've got a half-giant teacher, a werewolf ex-teacher, 
> a teacher who looks suspiciously like he might be half-goblin 
> [Flitwick] - if Snape's a vampire it's going to look like JKR's 
> trying to tell kids that teachers aren't really human. ;-)


?They ain't, except for a precious few... HALLOO!!? Frankie hollers.
?Is anyone missing bits of their boats??

A number people appear at portholes or lean over deck railings,
returning the hello but replying in the negative.

?Is everyone sure?? Frankie asks, reining in the kelpie next to the
largest ship. He patiently chews seaweed as she continues. ?I?ve got
an armful of planks here that seem as though they belong to someone.
No full titles or anything, just letters.?

?Well, what do you think they stand for?? asks a woman in sunglasses,
clutching a mug of coffee. The man next to her at the railing nods
encouragingly and shades his eyes.

?Given the type-faces used for some of these,? Frankie begins, ?I
think they have to do with werewolves and vampires in the WW, which
may be involved with specific characters? histories. There isn?t much
out there in the canon about them-- I spent all of yesterday swimming
in it, looking.

Here?s what I?ve gathered. Both werewolves and vampires bite people,
right? That?s how they transmit their ?conditions.?  They?re not
undead, they?re just carrying an infectious pathogen. Both conditions
sound a bit some nasty transmittable diseases in the muggle world, if
you ask me.

We all know Lupin was bitten by a werewolf before he was old enough to
attend Hogwarts. If he bites anyone (without killing and eating them,
that is), they too will become werewolves. If the pathogen is in the
werewolves' saliva, would that put the ka-bosh on "swapping spit" or
does the saliva have to come into direct contact with the bloodstream?
Lupin is nice guy and bound to have had a girlfriend or two along the way.

Vampires seem to work the same way, although there?s not much in the
canon to go on. Usually, they either bite you and kill you or you
become one yourself. If we infer from what Neville says to Harry in
PoA, JKR?s vampires are in some way affected by garlic. But, if they
are NOT undead, can we then assume that they are not adversely
affected by sunlight or crucifixes? I think Bram Stoker allowed his
Count Dracula (who was hopelessly in love with another man's wife) to
wander daytime London on occasion. 

If Snape is a vampire, it?s always possible that he was bitten some
time after leaving Hogwarts. Possibly while he was a DE under
Voldemort? Just like becoming a werewolf, winding up as a vampire
would be pretty rough to admit to others. Easier to hide, but what if
the only person willing to hire a vampire is Dumbledore? At the end of
GoF, LV talks about re-building his army of those the WW fears, like
giants and dementors. Werewolves and vampires (among others) would
round out the mix quite nicely. 

SO, what if the mission Dumbledore asks Snape to undertake at the end
of GoF is to contact the all the other vampires??

Silence, broken only by waves lapping against the hulls, falls on
Theory Bay.

?Thoughts, anyone?? asks Frankie. ?BTW, please don?t touch Ziff?s
ears-- he?s got water fleas in them, poor baby.? The poor baby shakes
his mane again and tries to take the bit in large, pointy teeth.



Frankie, who is aware her current mode of transport is none too
reliable... And is not exactly sure (given canon evidence) whether
Snape is a vampire or in love with Lily, but admits that both are very
possible.