[HPforGrownups] Big pointer to Snape as Vampire

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 47123


 toogoodforthisearth <toogoodforthisearth at yahoo.com> wrote:
Names give clues to who the characters really are - Lupin, Sirius etc - well Severus Snape doesn't take alot of manipulation to become Severs Nape or cuts neck.

What do you think?

 
Me: 
It is true that the name "Remus Lupin," at the very least, should have sent up a red flag about his being a wolf Animagus at the very least, if not an actual werewolf, which proved to be the case, and Sirius Black is in fact a black dog Animagus, something reflected in HIS name.  Plus, JKR gave us Rita Skeeter, an insect (but not a mosquito) Animagus.  (It is notable that neither James Potter's name nor Peter Pettigrew's name really point to their Animagus forms, and Minerva McGonagall's doesn't either.)
 
However, Snape's name hardly lends itself to manipulation for the purpose of finding more information about him than we currently possess.  For instance, none of the above highly-meaningful names relied upon rearranging their letters to arrive at their "hidden" meaning.  It's all right there.  Severus is a name that implies severity.  He is a VERY severe teacher.  Snape is a town near the east coast of England, but also puts one in mind of the words snip, snap, snipe and snake--all things we associate with the Potions Master.  Besides, "severs nape" has no "u" in it, and it more strongly implies that he would be Macnair's successor as executioner of dangerous animals rather than someone who drinks blood from a human's jugular.  ;) 
 
In addition to that, I think that, given the dark personality JKR has given him and the suspicion with which he is regarded, it would be dramatically anticlimactic for him to harbor even more darkness than previously suspected.  JKR likes to pull switches.  Sirius Black, who was supposed to be an escaped murderer, turns out to be a good guy.  Remus Lupin, who seems ever so gentle and harmless turns out to be a murderous animal at the full moon.  Snape, whom Harry and Ron think is out to get him and is irredeemably evil all through the first book, turns out to be on the good side--a spy for Dumbledore.  I think that, if anything, we are likely to find out more good about Snape than bad (although, like the Trio, I would like to know what he did when he was a Death Eater).  I think his darkness is mostly in his past (aside from his severe treatment of his students) and that JKR has nothing to gain from making him a vampire (even a spying-for-the-good-guys vampire). 
 
--Barb


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