[HPforGrownups] The real vampire

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 36040

Amy Z wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Many of us enjoy speculating on the possible undead status of a certain
> Potions Master, especially because it's a sure-fire way to wind Amanda
> Lewanski up.  And indeed there are bountiful small hints that fit JKR's
> sneaky foreshadowing technique--references to bats and swooping, mirrors and
> vampire essays.
> 
> But those of us who would like to catch a character being postbiological
> should cast our net a bit wider.  IIRC, there is only one character in 1000+
> pages who is explicitly likened to a vampire.  Peruse, if you will, this
> passage from PA 3:
> 
> "Harry looked into the shadowed eyes of Sirius Black, the only part of the
> sunken face that seemed alive.  Harry had never met a vampire, but he had
> seen pictures of them in his Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, and
> Black, with his waxy white skin, looked just like one."
> 
> Hmmmm . . .

Great! now we have to contend with Black sucking the blood of young
children...or do we?

IIRC, vampires suck blood for their food, but in GoF, Harry Hermione and
Ron take all sorts of food (chicken wings?) to Black in the mountains,
and he devours it. Unless he's a special sort of vampire who can eat
other kinds of food. 

-Katze