anagrams, snape and animagi

[nyarth_meow]

No: HPFGUIDX 35984

Marcia wrote:
> 2.  I don't really like the idea of Snape(easily my favourite 
> character) being a vampire.  I do however concede that there are a 
> few references to him swooping around like a bat but I'm choosing 
to 
> interpret them as a possibility that he is another unregistered 
> animagus (and the form he takes is a bat).  It seems that the 
> ministry isn't doing too good a job keeping tabs on their animagi 
> (with at least 4 that I can think of - James Potter, Peter 
Pettigrew, 
> Rita Skeeter and Sirius Black running around unregistered).

Don't you think this would be labouring the animagus storyline a 
little bit too much?  It's been used twice alreay (Padfoot et al in 
PoA and Rita Skeeter in GoF)  Using it a third time would smack of 
running out of ideas.  At this rate, unregistered animagi will soon 
outnumber normal wizards (and witches) and so be taking over the 
world. 
 Personally, I'm well into the Snape-vampire thing.  From reading 
previous posts, I gather it's not such a popular opinion around here, 
but IMHO there's just too many clues pointing that way to discount it 
entirely.  Not least, JKR's own drawing of Snape shows him with a 
high Dracula-style collar, lurking behind his cloak like a proper 
creature of the night. If she didn't concieve him to be a vampire, 
she certainly imagines him to look like one.  
Still, time -and Rowling-  will tell!

Marcia also wrote:
> 3.  I found an few anagrams for potions master that I thought were 
> kind of interesting:  I am potter's son.
>                       Poison matters.
>                       I start on poems.(one of my favourite 
passages 
> in PS is his poetic introduction to potions)

Severus Snape is also an anagram of Perseus Evans... Evans being Lily 
Potter's maiden name.  I'm sure this isn't relevant in any way, but 
it's quite a cute thought!  

-Nyarth