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

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 56237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.
> 

<snip>

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

Annemehr:
Let's throw this tidbit into the mix, from PoA ch. 10, the first time 
Harry uses the Marauder's Map to get into Hogsmeade, and Honeyduke's:

"Harry squeezed himself through a crowd of sixth years and saw a sign 
hanging in the farthest corner of the shop (UNUSUAL TASTES).  Ron and 
Hermione were standing underneath it, examining a tray of 
blood-flavored lollipops.  Harry sneaked up behind them.

"'Ugh, no, Harry won't want one of those, they're for vampires, I 
expect,' Hermione was saying."

Perhaps Hermione is mistaken, but after all, this *is* Hermione -- who 
memorizes all her schoolbooks and parts of the library as well.  If 
she is right, it would imply that vampires in JKR's world are welcome 
to shop at Honeyduke's.  So, maybe their reputation in the muggle 
world is a bit exaggerated.  Maybe they don't normally bite humans or 
drink human blood.

There are enough side references to vampires along the way that I'm 
sure quite a few of us expect to see one in the story sooner or later!

Annemehr
who does not think Snape is one, either