Grey laundry - vampire clue?!

[mkaliz]

No: HPFGUIDX 76771

Inge and Garrett were discussing the possibility (or lack thereof) of
Snape being a vampire or part-vampire...

Though I'm not yet totally sold on the idea (but I can be convinced!)
there is certainly enough vampire lore about dhampirs who are the
offspring of vampires (usually the widow of a newly turned male
vampire), according to some Eastern European legends. 

The lore seems to indicate that dhampirs, though they had some
abilities in common to vampires (i.e. super-human strength, ability to
transform in to animal shapes, sprout fangs) they were also able to
blend in with regular humans, roam around in sunlight, eat/drink food
other than blood, etc. According to lore, these dhampirs were often 
vampire slayers. 

I think you might be able to make a case for Snape being a dhampir
given what we've seen/heard about him in canon. Certainly JKR seems to
drop a lot of hints in that kind of direction, whether she's just
being metaphorical or not. ::g::

--kai