[HPforGrownups] Re: Grey laundry - vampire clue?!

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 76798



lziner wrote:

> One big hint is in PoA where Lupin (sorry the book is not with me)
> mentions his Vampire essay in front of Snape.  It's the maurader's
> map bit.  A little payback perhaps for the werewolf essay he
> assigned.  Maybe some Vampire blood in Snape is a very good theory!
> However, paybacks seem uncharacteristic for Lupin. 
> When will book six come out - ugh!
> 
> Lz
> 


The vampire essay thing was likely a red herring thrown in by the author 
just to get the goths all stirred up thinking Lupin was aiming it at 
Snape somehow.  I am sure Hermione would have been telling Harry and Ron 
that Snape was a vampire after the essay.  No, she figured out Lupin, 
but obviously she didn't think Snape was a vampire.

I don't think Snape is a vampire at all. He saw himself in the foe 
mirror, he walks in daylight, he bleeds and he doesn't snack on the 
students (no students wandering about with bite marks).  Dumbledore 
might hire a werewolf, who is only dangerous during full moons, but 
vampires are dangerous every night.

I'd sooner believe Percy was a vampire then Snape..

I think the grey laundry is just a sign that he was from a poor family. 
   There's nothing to make me believe that Snape wears velvet and silk.. 
Its just not something I feel he would do.  I see him as suffering 
depression, withdrawing from contact with others because he is unable to 
develop close relationships. This is a problem linked to depression. 
There is plenty of canon to support it. He was unpopular and an outcast 
  as a student, he was a Death Eater, then turned spy for whatever 
reason, perhaps because he found the DEs were not 'real friends' and 
were only using him.  He doesn't feel a part of the 'family' in the 
order and doesn't hang out with them any longer then it takes to make a 
report. He  prowls the halls by night.. Depression can cause 
sleeplessness.  He tends to not take care of his teeth and hair, more 
symptoms of depression.

I think Severus is just a lonely, depressed, jaded, bitter man whose 
greatest fear may be looking over those walls he built around himself. 
Give him Prozac and an understanding person he can confide his problems 
to and he  might be a nice person..

Jazmyn