If Snape is a vampire, he isn't bothered by sunlight...

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 56227

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "silver_wendigo" 
<silver_wendigo at y...> wrote:
> Hi all. I'm Joe, I've just signed on. 

Welcome, Joe!

> However, one concept that seems strange to me is that of
> Professer Snape being a vampire. 
> 
> Assuming J.K. Rowling is giving vampires their traditional 
folkloric weaknesses (which I believe is likely, considering the 
references to vampiric weakness to garlic encountered in the books 
as well as the Lexicon), vampires are destroyed in sunlight. 
> 

Depends which folkloric region you're talking about. Vampires being 
destroyed by sunlight is an invention of Hollywood. Mostly they 
don't like it, and it reduces their powers considerably. Mostly they 
wander around in the night. But Dracula wandered around London in 
daylight.

Err... come to think of it, that doesn't prove anything about 
vampires ability to withstand sunlight [grin]. British weather, eh?

However, in PoA, Harry is described as having seen 'pictures of 
vampires in his Defense Against the Dark Arts' classes. He thinks 
that Sirius Black looks like a vampire. He *doesn't* think 'gosh, he 
looks very like Snape.' [PoA Ch. 3p.34]

> Snape spends an extended period of time in the sun when he 
referees the Quidditch game in SS. References are made to the match 
starting in the afternoon (SS pg 221). After the match is over, 
there is a line about Hogwart's windows "glowing red in the setting 
sun". (SS pg 225) This makes it clear, the match was played start to 
finish in sunlight...which would be decidely painful for a vampire, 
especially one high in the air in the middle of an open field.
> 

Yeah, but to argue against this point, that match was played 
sometime in the Spring Term, probably mid-February, in the north of 
Scotland. It would *not* be strong sunlight. The sun is at a very 
low angle throughout the British winter.

But no, I don't think Snape's a vampire either. I think he looks 
like a bat. By the end of PoA, the kids have seen pictures of 
vampires, they've had lessons on vampires, and no one is making 
jokes about Snape looking like a vampire. They make constant jokes 
about his looking like a *bat*.

Very few bats are vampires. Most are harmless creatures who've got 
landed with a rather sinister reputation. Some bats are dangerous 
and deserve their reputation.

Which one is Snape?

Pip!Squeak (aka Pip)