Vampires in the HP Universe- Help please?/Hagrid's Wand

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 46254

>Message: 5
                         Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002
>14:12:38 -0000
>From: "mitchbailey82" <MITCHBAILEY82 at HOTMAIL.COM>
                      Subject: Re: Vampires in th Hp
>Universe- Help please?

>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ellen & John Anglin"
><anglinsbees at y...> wrote:
>> Hello
>> Been thinking about vampires recently, and was
>considering their 
>> role in the HP-verse.
>> Does anyone else find it significant that they
were, >>perhaps 
> pointedly, left <out> of Fantastic Beasts?> 

>Maybe their not classified as beasts at the start of
>the book theres a section detailing how a beast is
>classified a beast - can't remember the exact
phrasing >> something about inteligence, understanding
language >etc.  However I do remember that the only
reason >centaurs are classified as beasts is because
they >asked to be and I'm sure it says in one of the
notes >about werewolves that they were only classified
as >beasts when they were in their wolf form.         
   >         So maybe the vampires intelligent (for
lack >of a better word) enough not to be classified as
a >beast.


>Michelle

Anne's Reply:

Yes, I believe Michelle's right.  After all, as they
can buy lollipops in Honeydukes, you would infer that
they are sentient beings (as in FB's distinction
between "beasts" and "beings").

All of which leads me to speculate on how JKR may
handle them if they make an appearance in the story. 
Somehow, although she follows classical legend as to
how werewolves are created via bite, I doubt she will
do the same for vampires.  This would make them too
evil and dangerous for Honeydukes shopping. They would
be dangerous at all times, not just at a full moon.
Perhaps the legends are built up from malicious gossip
based on the (in my theory) fact that they do indeed
like to drink blood; and harmless ones would use the
blood of animals only, I suppose.  Then if they go
bad, they turn to the blood of humans, only, according
to my theory, this does not result in the victim's
becoming a new vampire.

This way, vampires could be classified as beings; not
too dangerous to need to be killed on sight, and still
providing a source for the classical legends.  Perhaps
also, vampires generally like to hide from the WW much
as Wizards like to hide (even more) from the Mw, and
if sunlight hurts them, that would of course make them
even more reclusive and subject to malicious theories.
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On to a separate theory about Hagrid's wand, which
seems to work much better than Ron's less-damaged one
did in CoS.  Do you suppose Dumbledore secretly
repaired it for him back when he got him the
groundskeeper's job?  Because after all, a wizard
without a wand is almost unthinkable.  I can hear
Dumbledore saying, "There, Hagrid. It'll do pretty
well now, though not quite as good as new, I'm afraid.
 Mind you keep this a secret, though, or it'll be
confiscated before can say 'lemon drop.'  Perhaps you
could hide it in this old umbrella for the time
being.'"

Great man, Dumbledore.

Anne

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