Snape and the faculty, foe glass, Vampire fluff

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 35651

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
 
>   We don't know 
> that Snape has no fear of garlic, since it's unclear whether the 
> turban smells of garlic or not.
I've always thought it did, as JKR made quite a bit of reference to 
"smells" in Chapter 8, The Potions Master in the SS(US hardcover 
version, page 134):
"His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to 
ward of a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would be coming 
back to get him one of these days" 
and on same page, same paragraph:
"..for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the 
turban, and the Weasley twins instisted that it was stuffed full of 
garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went."

makes sense to me that Quirrell had quite a BO of garlic that hung 
around him.  Perhaps Voldermort had a particular smell as he was 
incorporated into the back of Quirrell's head, so the garlic was to 
mask that smell.  I, too, never bought into the whole vamp theory; 
like the unrequited love theory, it is too pat and I will quite 
disappointed if JKR succumbs to it.  I want Snape to be a nasty, 
ill-tempered MAN, not some vamp or half-breed of a vamp.  

Cole(who wonders if Snape turns out to be a Vampire, she just 
might offer her neck to him -- and that worries her)