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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 56232

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "silver_wendigo" 
<silver_wendigo at y...> wrote:
> Hi all. I'm Joe, I've just signed on. It's neat to see that the 
ideas 
> I've had floating around in my head for months seem to be on other 
> people's minds as well (and have been for a lot longer then I've 
had 
> them). 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. 

As pipsqueak said, not all folklore has vampires turning to ash in 
the sun. The Vlad Dracula of Bram Stoker could walk around in the 
day, albeit a bit more sluggishly than he did at night.

And besides, we've already got a half-giant in Hagrid and a werewolf 
tamed by potions in Lupin and whatever the hell Flitwick is.

Why not a half-vampire? I know that under traditional lore, vampires 
can't mate (notwithstanding Blade) but who cares? Or... Snape has 
taken similar potions as Lupin to cure himself.

I'm not saying I LIKE the idea, but it is possible. 

Darrin
-- Hagrid and the Half-Giants. Very good name for a band, but good 
luck getting it trademarked.