Vampire Snape/Knowing Lucius was a DE/Remus as Spy (WAS: Thoughts and questions)

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 56215

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:

>It is quite possible he got teased for it, after all. Still doesn't 
>explain why Lupin assigned the essay in the first place.


me:
I believe Lupin's assignment tells us far more about his sense of 
humor than anything about Snape. It is pretty likely that students 
call Snape 'the vampire'--no, there's nothing in canon to support 
that other than offhand comments about him being able to turn into a 
bat--but seeing how rampant the idea is with readers I think HW 
students would pick up on it as well. It would follow that students 
in Severus' and Remus' own school years might have also used the 
taunt. 
So, Remus, being Remus simply decided to push Snape's buttons and 
assign a vampire essay. Remus IS a werewolf--there would be little 
point to him being upset by the werewolf essay, but as Severus is NOT 
(IMO) a vampire--*that* assignment would annoy they h*ll out of him. 
Especially since he'd be expected to sub again in 28 days and was 
bound to get a question or two....

Melpomene: 
Who once wrote a chapter of a fanfic in which teenage Severus and his 
common-room cronies actually USED the vampire 'resemblance' in a 
great caper! 

**"One day in the library Hugh Delamere started my robes smoking with 
some hex and a dozen girls ran out sobbing. A few first and second 
year boys went with them. I got a week detention for that."**