The real vampire/ flightless animagi

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 36147

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:


> Surely, in the context of holding a position at Hogwarts, if you 
were a  vampire, or part vampire and thus on the margins of the 
wizarding world, if  not an outcast, possibly not even allowed to 
posses a wand, you'd want to try  to hide it -  just as Hagrid 
hasn't gone round shouting about his giant  blood, and Lupin 
kept his lycanthropy hidden. <

Except that this is the Potterverse, where people never notice 
nuffink, do they? And just as the Knight Bus goes careening 
unremarked through quiet  Muggle neighborhoods and likewise 
in the heart of London, just as Stan, who sees the scar, can't 
quite manage to recognize famous Harry Potter, so Severus 
Snape swoops batlike about the castle and nobody thinks 
"vampire". Look at Vernon Dursley. He *knows* there are 
wizards, but won't admit to himself what they are even when he 
sees them on the streets in full wizarding attire. Wouldn't it be a 
typical Rowling joke to have the wizards react to vampires the 
same way? 

Pippin